One Nation Under God

                                                                 ONE NATION UNDER GOD                                                                                     

I can't say how many times I've said that I'm not one to preach.However, this is probably exactly what I'm about to do and many of you may not like what I'm about to say.But regardless here's goes nothing.
When I was growing up I remember how much everyone talked about what a great nation America was and how everyone wanted to come and live here. Our country was beloved around the world. The land of opportunity, rags to riches, where every dream deserved a chance. America was the nation where no matter who you are or what you believed you could be free to live as you chose.
Attached to that sentiment was also the phrase, "One Nation Under God." It is stamped on our money and written into our Constitution in such a way as to be understood that this nation was developed and forged with serving and worshiping God.
As the years have rolled on from those days of settlements of old and masses of people from all around the world who have poured into our borders, we have become less of a God serving nation. We should perhaps re-phrase that one statement to say, "One Nation under political and money servitude."
The people of this great nation are no longer loved around the world, but rather hated is more like it. More and more we find our selves in the mist of political disaster and misleadership, all the while pretending to still be a great nation.
We are not a nation under God, but a nation of fools. If you don't go along with what's deem as the new way of thinking, " Anything Goes." then maybe you are committing a hate crime. If you don't like your neighbors, which you should then you might be stirring up trouble.
Crime is at and all time high, murders are being committed every second for the most insidious reasons and the real hate is like a cancer.
We can no longer speak out about our "president" and his lack of leadership, lest we be hatemongers and racist. But on the other hand the shout of "it's racial" is being screamed for everything that goes wrong, even if it's not the other races fault. I am a white christian women who has lived through poverty, abuse, bullying and all kinds of hateful action lean against me. The truth is I don't hate anyone, but if you kill an innocent person, well I'm probably not going to be your best friend.
All I want is to be able to practice my faith, watch the news that isn't forty five minutes of blood shed and still be proud of my country and my leaders. Sadly that isn't going to happen anymore, is it? This great nation that has seen so much sacrifice for freedom is going to hell in a quick hand basket and our leaders are paving the way. I wish I knew what happen to that great place called America, One Nation Under God. She just doesn't exist, not the way I believe she was suppose to anyway.
Our fore fathers had a dream for this country, but it is my opinion that this country of ours is just plain full of crap. What we as Americans have allowed to happen in our own backyard is repulsive and we should be very ashamed of how we have let our dream country disappear.
I pray every night for this country, my home of the brave. I keep hoping for honest leaders with a little backbone that will perhaps take a stand and finally reclaim the we are indeed, still a great nation. One Nation Under God, Indivisible, And Justice For All.
Good luck America, we're going to need it.

MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?

I'VE HEARD THIS QUESTION ALL OF MY LIFE," AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER"? SHOULD WE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE? IF SO, TO WHAT DEGREE? LOOK AT THE WORLD AROUND US. SEEING THE VIOLENCE THAT IS PRODUCED ALL OVER THE WORLD, AGAIN I ASK, AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?
I LOVE AMERICA, MY HOME, MY COUNTRY. I LOVE THE FREEDOM THAT I HAVE TO LIVE MY LIFE MOSTLY AS I CHOSE TO. HOWEVER SOMETIMES I WONDER IF OUR LEADERS UNDERSTAND THAT IT MAY BE MORE IMPOSSIBLE RIGHT NOW TO POLICE THE WORLD THAN EVER BEFORE.
I SAY THIS ONLY BECAUSE THIS ONCE BELOVED NATION HAS TURNED IT'S BACK ON IT'S OWN PEOPLE. OUR LEVEL OF VIOLENCE IN THIS COUNTRY HAS RAISED TO AN ALL NEW HIGH, YET OUR MILITARY FORCES TRAVEL HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SAKE, WHILE PEOPLE ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED HERE FOR A PENNY.
I BELIEVE AND FULLY SUPPORT OUR MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN. THEY ARE DOING AN AWESOME JOB AND THE SACRIFICE IS ENORMOUS. BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE OF US THAT CAN'T EVEN GO TO THE STORE WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING ATTACKED OR EVEN KILLED OVER NOTHING? WE NEED HELP TOO. EVEN THOUGH I THINK THAT NO NATION HAS THE RIGHT TO ELIMINATE ONE GROUP OF PERSONS, HOW CAN AMERICA POLICE THE WORLD?
I TOTALLY HATE VIOLENCE AND DEPLORE THE ACTIONS OF A GOVERNMENT THAT WOULD FOLLOW THE PATH OF GENOCIDE AGAINST ITS OWN PEOPLE, BUT WHEN WE STEP IN TO MAKE A DECIDING FACTOR ABOUT ANOTHER COUNTRY'S GOVERNMENT, WE MUST STEP VERY LIGHTLY.
MY HOPE IS THAT IF THE QUESTION "AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER", IS YES, THEN WE AS A NATION MUST WALK SOFTLY WHILE WE CARRY OUR BIG STICK.
TIMES ARE A CHANGING AND WITH THESE TIMES GOVERNMENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE NEW VIEWS ON HOW DEEP AMERICA CAN DIG INTO THEIR BUSINESS.
MY PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS IS TO TREAT ALL OF YOUR PEOPLE WITH KINDNESS AND GREAT PURPOSE. TO ALWAYS KNOW THAT WITHOUT THE PEOPLE THERE ARE NO NATIONS, UNDER GOD, YOUR GOD OR MIND, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
THAT GOD CREATED ALL OF MANKIND TO LIVE IN HARMONY, IF THAT IS EVEN POSSIBLE AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER ABOVE ALL THINGS.
I PRAY THAT WE EACH CAN SAY A PRAYER TODAY FOR WHAT IS GOING ON ALL AROUND THE WORLD, REMEMBERING THAT WE ARE ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN.
TAKE CARE OF THE ONE'S YOU LOVE, THIS DAY AND EVERYDAY.
GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU. I PRAY YOU FIND CONTENTMENT AND JOY.

It is what it is...

We all want everything that we feel is wrong to be right in some way. Changing the very idea of injustice isn't easy. How do we as a society go about changing wrong? It starts with an idea, a concept that behavior can be changed. Every view regarding right and wrong has a beginning. For me the beginning is a moral value set down by God.
No one really wants to be preached too. So, how about just having a conversation that involves the basic principals of good and evil? Good is good and should be easily noticeable at times; where as evil is evil and that should be recognized for what it is and thus the change begins
Social structure is a balancing act for all of us. Nothing comes easy for humans since we have struggle with our moral conscience from the beginning of our creation.
Still I hope that at the heart of humanity conversation is still the key to acting well. Our ability to evolve far from the downward spiraling social creatures that we are today can still give us hope. If all of mankind can take a step back just long enough to see how far we have come, then we also can take giant steps forward in the hopes of self improvement.
Life offers a strange set of circumstances each day that we must chose from that governs our behaviors. Through these choices we develop our inner most being as a human. We are what we are not completely by choice, but our free will drives mankind to develop in their own unique fashion.
In short, the only hope for changing the future and what we are to becomes hedges on understanding that life is what it is. There is really only one answer for a better tomorrow. It is simply this, it is always up to the individual to act in kindness thus dispelling and removing evil behavior for all time.
Seeing and hoping for the good social behavior isn't an easy thing to believe in, yet God in his wisdom gives us that hope. Never forget that life is here today, gone tomorrow and it is what it is..... until we make it better.

Maybe baby !

Justice is sometimes a matter of opinion. It is never swift or equal in it's application of making the sorrow we suffer easier.
Serve up your own justice as God would have you to do, forgive and ask for guidance. God is perfect in how he allows our free will to work.
Justice for all, may be in the longer only a concept of our mind. Maybe baby justice is what you make of it.

Even Though

Sometimes we find ourselves caught up in situation that tears at the very fabric of our lives. Immediately we think of getting justice making all things even. In truth life doesn't always offer us justice when things go bad. What it does offer is a small amount of leveling out for the pain that we suffer. For most people having to endure something that seems beyond awful isn't the way life is suppose to workout, but just when you think there's no hope for good it shows up anyway.
Good has many faces, many coats and many colors. It comes from all walks of life with all types of experiences and may feel somewhat unusual, but it can smooth out the wrinkles that evil leaves behind. Stop, take a deep breath and dig deep down inside for your own goodness. Learning to be good and to do good in the face of pain may seems like torment, but justice is hard. Figuring out how to act with goodness is hard as well. It requires a certain type of strength from our lives and souls. We must continue to work and practice at becoming a good person, not a perfected one.
So aim for just being good everyday in some way, whether it is begins as a small action or a large one. Think and act in kindness as often as you can and then somehow, somewhere even though you may not see it goodness will show up. And that my friends is a good coat to wear any day of the week.
We are blessed, God has justice for all of us.