Thursday, July 2, 2009

God Bless America

My 2nd favorite week of the year is upon me! I love Christmas because of snow and goodwill and the fact that I get to really focus on Christ coming to earth to make a way for you and me to go to Heaven. I also love Christmas music, it just makes my soul dance!

I love Independence Day for many reasons: the music is jiving, the fireworks are fun, cook-outs taste great, short work weeks. Most of all I love it because I get to exude all my patriotism and people don't look at me like I am quite so crazy! I just can't get over how much America means to me. I tear up when the colors are presented and I hear the Star Spangled Banner, or God Bless America. I really do.

America was an experiment, it was and is a challenge. America is far from perfect, and our past shows our myriad mistakes. Yet, America is also a dream land for most of the world. America is a place where people are free to learn, think, believe, act how we want (lawfully). People may ridicule me for things I say or do, but the government will not interfere (some may say that this is changing...).

I am free to choose ANY career, wear just about ANY outfit, use ANY language I want. If I were so inclined, I could sleep with a plethora of people, and the government would not do anything. For many women life is about being basically "owned" by first their father and then the husband that is forced upon them.

America is about volunteerism. We had a draft in the military for MANY years, but that was not the will of the people, so the draft was done away with, and now those that serve CHOOSE to serve with no governmental coersion. Many people also volunteer to do many things to help out their community. People do help out others. Maybe not as much as before, but it still happens.

Back to our military...it is the best trained, best equipped, top notch military in the world. Not only do our military men and women fight to protect our homeland, but we also fight to bring freedom to others. That is love.

For these reasons and OH SO MANY MORE I love America. While there are other countries that I'd enjoy living in for awhile, there is no other country that I would think of calling my home. I am so blessed to be an American.

May we all pause this week and thank God for the blessings HE has given us in this amazing country.

"Oh thus be it ever, when free men shall stand between their loved homes and the war's deloation. Blessed with vic'try and peace may this heaven rescued land praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! And then conquer we must when our cause it is just. And this be our motto: in God is our trust. And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!" (Star Spangled Banner by F.S. Key vs 4)


-ME-

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