Freedom

 These are thoughts that have been going through my mind for quite some time, but seem appropriate to talk about on this Independence week.  

Do you do anything to preserve your freedoms, other than complain on facebook, and elsewhere?  Do you take real action or do you just whine and complain, but don't do anything to try to preserve the freedoms we have, and try to hold on to, the freedoms, rights, and things you value?  Do you write letters, emails, make phone calls to those in government to share your concerns and opinions and take a stand for what you value and hold dear?  If you just rant about it on your facebook page, it really doesn't matter, you are just making noise because those thoughts are not reaching those we have hired by voting them in to office to represent us.  Unless we decide to  make our government by the people, for the people, our freedoms will disappear and we will destroy America from the inside.  If people started to take a stand for their freedoms, for their rights, for the Constitution, for those things we hold dear from the Word of God, for what others have fought so hard to preserve for over 200 years, we could make a difference.  But, what I see more are people who like to complain about everything, but won't take a stand for anything.  We need to start taking stands to preserve our freedoms, our country, by voting, by contacting state senators and reps, by honoring those who have died and fought to keep our country free.  Do you thank those who have, and are fighting for our country?  They are the reason people can even carry on their rants, because they fought for this country, for our rights, our freedoms, to preserve the Constitution of the United States. 

If your freedoms are important to you, then stand up and let your elected officials know your thoughts.  I am not talking about being violent, or about acting disrespectful to those you oppose.  Standing up for your freedoms can be done in a civilized, God-honoring way, and if you are a Christ follower, they should be done in a way that honors Christ.  

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."   Edmund Burke

If your freedoms are important, if you love your country, then be proud to be an American and take a stand for your freedoms, for the next generations freedoms.  


Remember to thank those who have served our country, every chance you get, too!!  







Gettysburg Address...


Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.


Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.


But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.