No, the mobs don’t define us.
The wondrous side of America is something that citizens in it can easily begin to forget. But to forget that is really to forget God who had made her great in times of great devotion, and then who also permitted her to decline when her devotion also declined.
Awesome article.
I’ll never forget the look on my Chinese MIL’s face when we flew to California back in 1997. As the plane banked for final approach at SFO, she looked down with her mouth open at millions of houses spread over mile after mile after mile of beautiful rolling hills.
Completely at odds with what she had been taught since childhood. She was a huge Mao supporter when she was young, was among the screaming hoards of red-book-wavers in Tienanmen Square back in the late ‘50s.
I let her take my window seat when we were on final approach. I stood in the aisle and watched her.
I cringed a bit when he said he took his wife through Hollywood.
L.A. is in such bad shape. I fear for the tourists who cone visit with high expectations and are greeted to crumbling infrastructure and the smell of urine due to the rampant homelessness resulting from the failed policies of leftists running the place.
Perhaps I am being harsh...or standards are just different...America is great but it could be so much better.
MAGA.
This was a great read.
What a Great Country and the article is terrific.
What a Great Country and the article is terrific.
For your interest.
Now, let's see America through the eyes of a Black Ohio State Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop named Benjamin W. Arnett, noting that his words were delivered about thirteen years following the Civil War in his Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon celebrating America's Declaration of Independence.
"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjaming W. Arnett, St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio, Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, November 1876
This is a great article. What a sweet, cute couple.
Takeaway line is that there IS such a thing as privilege. WE HAVE AMERICAN PRIVILEGE. And more of us need gratitude for it. We don’t need to “check our privilege” or be ashamed of it! But we can use it to help others in the cause of freedom, around the world.
I definitely got tears in my eyes reading this.
Thank you so much for posting it.
Nice story.
Very nice. Thanks for posting!
Americans are a different breed, and we are sometimes unaware until we visit other countries or foreigners visit us. I’ve had the privilege of serving on medical teams with my church in India, and the lower castes were aghast when we would kneel down and tend to foot wounds or take the first one in line, regardless of background. When traveling in Russia to adopt, our guide was shocked to learn that many Americans would love to adopt children without consideration of race, and we were shocked to hear his ongoing blatant unrestrained racist tirades. A German woman from our church told us her family was brought to tears because we sent some sympathy cards, without personally knowing the family. And I learned in a Paris airport that not all men will help a strange lady retrieve her heavy luggage, something I think we ladies take for granted here. This truly is an American quality. I had not realized it was rare until I became more well traveled.
What an inspiring article. Thank you for posting it.
We need more positive reminders in life.
Cool story. USAF enlisted Veteran here...
I immediately thought of my next door neighbors, immigrants from the Soviet Union. They were Russian Refuseniks who finally got out in the period of Glasnost and Perestroika. The are ultra proud Americans now and their son graduated from Harvard with a full scholarship.
Thanks for posting this! I pray that God will always bless America.