Today, over a quarter billion individuals gather beneath the stars and stripes lovingly sewn by Betsy Ross under commission of George Washington. I’m told Betsy Ross is one of my ancestors; and I wonder if the symbol her hands crafted was ever intended to be an object of hatred. I wonder if she ever dreamed the number of them which would be burned. I doubt she ever conceived of the number of them which would be draped over young men’s coffins.
If she stood before you here today, would she recognize her country? Would she see it as a place of opportunity? Probably. Would she consider it a place of freedom? I doubt it.
Our founding fathers discovered there is no practice, application, nor system which can rival the unity, common enlightenment, and possibilities for a people who stand in agreement with the Holy Spirit of God. It is this spiritual foundation which was the woof and web of our infant republic; the rock upon which our American freedoms were built, immersed in the proven promises of a Divine Creator.
Though some would reason, “We could care less where we began, for our concern is for where we will end up.”, we cannot refute, One Nation Under God is in agreement with our Constitution; In God We Trust is the motto of our foundations. A righteous people can say, “No weapon formed against me shall prosper”; a united people can declare, “In God is my strength”.
Yet what strength have we, divided in our chosen spirituality? Spirit is not just some mystery of religion: spirit is a quality of character recognized by action, unifying by agreement. For a nation to embrace an alcoholic spirit, a perverse spirit, a drug-addicted spirit, a promiscuous spirit, a violent spirit, or a lawless spirit, is to provide the vehicle by consensual agreement of the people for the degradation and ultimate destruction of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What babe in an abortionist’s curettage machine ever realized Life? What embryo, farmed like a plant in a petrie dish, ever realized Liberty? What proponent for euthanasia ever grasped a firm hold on the Pursuit of Happiness?
Do these “reasonable” arguments against our founding premises truly mean our concern is for where we will end up? Our disdain that America was born of Faith? Or that it is to our shame America was draped over a figure on a cross?
Is this the America we have accepted? One in which our Ten Commandments are hidden in shame; a new placard hung in it’s place:
TWO CARNAL RULES:
1. Grab him in the biscuits
2. Better to be the predator than the prey
What blinded us to believe that to embrace a spirit of Love, Kindness, Help and Community which perpetuates good, cannot lead us in the practices of responsible stewardship, and a purpose of perpetuating Prosperity and Peace?
Being American cannot remain on this course of being all gusto and foolishness, bluster and aggressiveness. We are not animals that our demeanor as a nation should reflect a common carnality. We must collectively give ourselves over to Submission: moving in agreement with what is Right. We are not beasts which take as opportunity permits, raping for self-satisfaction, killing as a convenient solution.
If this be a Republic by the people, we must speak with one voice. If this be a Democracy for the people, we must be found in agreement. If this be an America of the people, then it is an America also for children, for families, for the elderly, the handicapped, the immigrant, the poor, the sick, the drug-addicted, the discouraged, and the disenfranchised, whose voice too, must be heard; whose concerns too, must be raised; whose future also, is of America.
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