Life...those of us who are alive and breathing are fortunate enough to experience life, and all it has to offer-love, family, friends, laughter, the joy of experiencing the wonderful aspects of creation, sights, sounds, wonders....as well as pain, heartache and sadness, but it's all part of life. It's all part of our experience, our story, our legacy for the next generation.
What's life mean to you? Is it important? All life, or just some lives? Are the lives of just you and those closest to you all you care about, or do you care about those in your outer circle, all of humankind, those who are aging and lonely, those who are sick, those who yet to be born? Our country is facing a lot of moral issues on life and death, and we need to stand up for life as a country. Where will the line be drawn? First we kill babies for convenience sake. If the FOCA bill goes through, a live baby can born after a botched up late term abortion, it will be legal to kill that baby as it lay on the table taking it's first breathes. There is a lot of talk of assisted suicide, as well. Cloning. Farming embryo's for research. Euthanasia. Where will it stop? I foresee something for worse ahead for this country than anything Nazi Germany experienced. Life has become disposable. Life has become like a video game, I guess, where there's no value to someone when you kill them. When we get to the point of selecting who lives and who dies, who will make the cut?
You may be reading this and disagree with me, and I hope I am wrong. I hope that people actually remember to start caring about each other again, and taking stands for right and wrong. I hope people decide that human life is important, at all levels and stages. If not, we as a nation, as a society are in big trouble. If you are concerned about some of the issues, then take a stand and speak up because nothing was ever changed by those who believe in it just sitting around wishing something would change.
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A couple of friends and I were talking about people who have been hurtful in our lives. I looked up some verses on bitterness and God defini...
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As Christians, we trust in God. For everything. We have a peace knowing He holds us close. But when our country starts to unravel to the point of interfering with our God-given gift of LIFE, we need to step up to the plate!
Each of us needs to do what is right (sign a petition, tell others about atrocities) while keeping God first. We still need to be the salt and the light. He knows if we bury our heads in the sand. He knows if we stand up for Him. Stand up for LIFE.
"Come What May" is an awesome movie. Not just because of it's topic, but because of it's theme.
You, do what is right (in God's eyes), and come what may...
Have you read this article entitled "Something of Historic Proportions is Happening" by Tim Woods (prof. at Southwest Baptist University)? Go here for its entirety...
http://britanniaradio(dot)blogspot(dot) com/2009/03/something-of-historic-proportions-is.html
Here is some of it.
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed. He edged his way onto the political stage through great oratoryand promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his 'brown shirts' would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office as full-throttled economic crisis was at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department-by-department,person-by-person, bureaucracy-by-bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in their country, across Europe, and around the world.
He did it with a compliant media. Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ..... change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)
Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.
Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years --- a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency --- it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.
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