Every day we hear new and agonizing stories and reports about another circle that America has taken in a downward spiral of doom. Sound bad? Well It is. My heart aches at some of the things I have seen and heard in the last decade. But when did it start? Well, it’s been a slow fade for quite a few years and I believe that slow fade has recently turned into a rapid retreat to the dungeon. You know... when you want to hide from the light. From the truth. Hiding because of guilt.
Oh, America, how I wish I could reach out and pull you back to where you once were when you were founded upon principle, when your people had fled foreign lands to establish a Great Country built upon the Word of God. The voice of Truth, where in other countries just before they fell, was banned from Government and therein banned from the family and the home.
The truth is, the Homefront in America now lies in shambles. Family does not exist as it once did. Drugs, immorality and instant gratification are all that one holds to. And when that moment of satisfaction is over, those who reached for it now give up entirely, wasting away as if they were never born. For when there seems to be nothing better... why try to merely exist?
Children have grown up in a “me” society, an entitlement society, where everything is owed to us because we are. And so? We just expect to be made happy, and if we’re not? We whine and complain and become the victim. Jobs well done and work ethic have sunken to the floor in the back row. And while we’re here, would you bring me a decaf latte with almond milk?
Things that our Great Grandparents would have never questioned are now preached as unhealthy and bad for the planet. Hogwash!! That’s not their agenda at all. We must wake up to their sly misconceptions and hidden schemes and teach what we KNOW to be true. And if you dare to tell me that change is good, I am here to stand up and say, “Not always”.
How did we get here? Does history repeat itself? Is there any hope? Is there a chance at a redemptive rise from the ashes of defeat? Is there a chance at a Savior for Survival?
I don’t know all the answers, but what I do know is that it is going to take a lot of work in an uphill battle against the face of a reality that we have created ourselves! We will fight alongside of and against those we grew up with. A fight to the death in a Civil war of sorts that the world may have never seen.
Can it be done? I believe, for God’s sake, we will fight and we will conquer!
So how do we take steps to take our Great Country back?
1. We recognize the problem.
2. We acknowledge that we have a problem and we need to take a stand.
3. We do it.
4. We quit letting someone else do it! That is a big one. Be it teaching our children or running for public office! It’s going to take an army and it’s time for the army to rise!
5. We quit letting our children be the trial version. Their lives are worth so much more! THEY are the future of America and the generation set to take over! So we quit sending them out as sheep among wolves. At least give them some armor. Goodness knows I know you can’t protect them forever and I don’t in the least tell you to lock them up so they don’t get hurt! I’m saying that we need to be the ones they look to. Not Oprah or Ellen, not the late night shows and not even the public universities! Yes, I said that! It’s not worth it. And neither is soccer at 6am and 9pm including weekends. They aren’t meant to be a trial version!
6. (And last on the list only to finish with the Main Point.) We put God back. If it’s any encouragement at all... He never left. We moved Him. Out of our government. Out of our schools. Out of our family. Out of our lives. We called ourselves by the Christian name when it was convenient. After all, we are America: God, Baseball, Chevy and Apple pie! (And that’s not just a Christian speaking. Ask around. Other countries consider Americans Christian whether they like it our not.)
America as it was once known does not exist. But I believe that hope lies just around the corner. What I question is “will we need to fall all the way before we can start to pick up the pieces and put it back together again?”
Our generation knows no hardship. What we want and what we need lies just inside our reach. At the touch of a button we have it delivered to our door. And we know satisfaction only until we see the next big thing. Do we need to crash and burn before we see how desperately we need to reroute? It was a slow fade that nobody even knew was happening and it’s going to be a slow climb back to the top. But let’s do it. Let’s take on the mountain!
My friends. It starts at HOME. It starts in your own life. YOU must be responsible for the person that YOU are and then strive to better yourself and raise your family and/or encourage those with whom you interact. It starts at HOME. It’s time for a Revolution. It’s time we become America again.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
