My Country "Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of LIBERTY"

My heart is heavy as we enter this Fourth of July season.  This is a time to celebrate, to remember, to enjoy our freedoms, to glory in our Constituion and the Founding Fathers. It is a time to relflect on what was and what is and what can be.

Yet this year I am in mourning. I mourn for the loss of lives that have been given as we struggle to bring freedom to the world.  I mourn for the ideals that have been tossed to the wayside as "we the people" become less involved in government and more involved in our own selfishness.  I mourn for the people who are "sleeping" as our great nation reduces itself into pieces.  I mourn for the Constituion. I mourn for the degradation of those great men who founded our country and fought long and hard to establish the best Consitution that they could.



 I mourn most of all for my children.  They will never know the great nation that I knew.  They will never see the freedoms that I grew up with.  They will be increasingly forced to live in a way that was not intended by the Founding Fathers. As I sat here wondering what I can do about this, what I can do to stop these freedoms from being lost, the thought slowly entered into my mind to go to Glennbeck.com.  I don't normally get involved very much with these things but I wanted to DO SOMETHING.  I couldn't just sit around and let my family loose their freedoms.  The following link is the program where Glenn talks about what we CAN DO.  You may not be a big fan of Glenn or agree with a lot of what he says but you have to agree that this decision on Obamacare cannot stand. 

Glenn Beck on the Supreme Courts Decision of Obamacare
On glenbeck.com you can find, on the right hand side a link that shows the following

http://www.glennbeck.com/fourthings . Here you can go to step 2 and find out if you are registered to vote.  To my shame, I was not.  I took the steps that I needed to get registered.  That is the FIRST thing that we need to do. "We the People" are the government, or we should be the government.  If we choose to stand idly by while our Constituion is destroyed then we will be held accountable for that.  We need to stand up and retain the freedoms that we HAVE!!!! We cannot lose anymore. 

For the Supreme Court to say that "We the People" can be TAXED (or in Obama's word) "penalized", for not purchasing something is ridiculous.  Not to mention all of the riders and hidden costs of Obamacare.
Yet there is optimism out there. There is hope.  Glenn said the following in his evening show from June 28, 2012.

"The left has awoken a sleeping giant.  This guy (Obama) woke us up. He threw hot coffee in our face and he is still doing it today.  LOOK OUT.  LOOK OUT PROGRESSIVES.  This is when America is at her best, and you'll never see us coming ---because you don't understand us.  When there are two minutes left in the game and we are behind that is when we come out and kick some ass.  And yes, I said it." 

So this Fourth of July - let us truly celebrate the freedoms that made us great.  Let us rally together, let us REGISTER TO VOTE, let us pray with a voice united, let us stand together as George Washington and his army did, let us fight this war in the way that "we the people" can.  We can win: IF we choose to be heard.  We can win: IF we do something.  We can win: IF we stand for something. We can win: IF we act.



As a final note I would like to include a quote from Rex E Lee. (who was president of Brigham Young University when this devotional address was given on 15 January 1991.) It is in regards to the statement that the Constituion would one day "hang by a thread".

"I am satisfied that whatever else may eventually hang in the constitutional balance, this much is clear: The continuation of the blessings of liberty depends finally on our spiritual righteousness. As the Lord told the Jaredites in the Book of Ether, this is a "land of promise." And "whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, . . . if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ." If the people fail to keep this covenant, they "shall be swept off when the fulness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity" (Ether 2:9–12)."

You may not be a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints and you may not understand the reference to the Book of Ether ... but I implore you to listen to the words

"The continuation of the blessings of liberty depends finally on our spiritual righteousness."

“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”       -Frederick Smith