I want to find that lovely inspiring picture for my granddaughter’s room....she’s four.
We as individuals may be saved, but I fear the dream that was the United States of America is gone. Perhaps it has been gone for a while now.
Perhaps we have been to lazy and lukewarm, and God has decided to give us a trial to strengthen our faith.
We have a lot of work to do, but now there is nothing for it but to hitch up our trousers and go to it. We must continiue to work, educate, stay prepared, and to pray, even as you so eloquently and spiritually have done here Joanie, and work as you have done so hard there in PA. We must continue to do these things for our children and grandchildren, and we must never lose hope or faith.
Barack Hussein Obama's vistory was not a near thing. No one can say it was stolen...even if a few hundred thousand votes likely were...which is a travesty. But the win was much larger than that. It was not a Reagan style blow out, but it was very convincing. The American people chosen and they have done so by a significant majority and a large electoral vote.
There were many reasons for that choice, not the least of which is the huge numbers of people who are already hooked on the public largess and who are entangled and emshed in its binding chords to vote for whomever promises them more.
Obama promised more and it is likely that their numbers will grow under his administration.
In addition, millions of people bought into what I consider a lie that Bush was "bad" and we needed to change away from anything remotely similar to him. Bush has made some mistakes, some of them significant, but in general his administration has not been as terrible as it has been made out to be at all.
We have not been attacked again. No spin can change that. 40-60 million people who have never tasted freedom now do, and in a part of the world where they can be our allies and bring a watershed change for the better where it is most needed.. Up until this housing and credit crisis, which has been severe, and which is a direct result of democratic initiatives, our economy under Bush has soared.
But the mindless craving for change which has produced this vote, IMHO, may lead to unimaginable terror here at home...I pray not.
Millions more voted for Obama simply because he was black. And not just black Americans. Millions of heretofore conservative leaning people felt this was some kind of historic duty and the result certainly is historic and despite his horrible ideology, does historically represent a watershed occurrence which in and of itself may well say good things about our nation and where we have come on race...but history may well mark their choice as a terrible one...again, I pray we avoid the worst horrors of his brand of Marxism, but it looks likely that we will live with it for the next four to eight years and the terrible consequences it will bring.
Having said all of that, there are a couple of reasons and glimmers for hope in the election.
First, Democrats were kept from a 60 seat, filibuster proof senate. The Republicans, if they have the courage and the will, can hold up the worst legislation and we need to encourage them with all of our strength to do so.
Second, and IMHO, even more importantly, it seems that all of the Bans on Gay Marriage will pass in the three states they were up for vote as constitutional amendments. This will be critical for the future of our children and grandchildren and for the sanctity of marriage and the marriage ceremonies conducted in our churches. God in Heaven be thanks for that. It gives us hope in avoiding a complete moral breakdown
I pray for our nation, and pledge myself within my own sphere of influence to continue to work for her welfare. My prayer to God in Heaven is that we shall all do the same wherever and whenever we can, and that God, at some future date, will recognize and bless these efforts and our sincere pleas to Him, and bless us to turn things back around.
We most probably are going to see very difficult and trying times before that happens and we will all have to be valiant, courageous, virtuous, and most of all, faithful to Him and to the foundational principle He has established liberty upon for it to happen, and for us to be prepared when it does happen....because as surely as night follows day, I believe with all my heart that it will happen if we do those things.
However, I can wholeheartedly and gladly pray for my country, and thank you much for the post!
BTTT ~ now more than ever, this thread needs to stay at the top!
Joined in prayer, joined in battle.
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