Monday, May 18, 2009

American Values and Principles: Part Ten


I will leave you with this for right now: We were founded by a spiritual and moral people that were guided and influenced by God to create a document that, if followed, would secure and forever establish the rights of individual freedom. This document, the Constitution was based on unchanging fundamental truths and ideas. The values and principles in the Constitution are as relevant today and to today’s people as they were throughout history. There is no expiration date on them, they do not spoil, and they do not go bad; people do. People lose their way; truths handed down to us by God do not. However people can always find their way back by returning once again to the ideas we were founded on. The Constitution and our principles and values can and will continue to guide us if we turn to them once again. How do you find your way back home? You follow the light. It is through retuning to our founding documents and the ideas present in them that the United States of America will be saved. “Woe to the ambition that would meditate the destruction of either” (James Madison). We will, once again, become “a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere” (Ronald Reagan).
I know some out there will say to themselves that people like me have lost it, or “they have really gone off the deep end this time.” Whatever you think matters little to me when compared to the love I have for my country. God caused some of the wisest and most righteous men ever to exist to happen upon each other and come together in one tiny British colony in the absolute right moment in history. God inspired them to create a document as close to his natural law as any other that has ever existed before or since. The Constitution and the ideas laid out in it have made the United States the greatest nation ever to exist and was a gift to humanity as a whole.
I will not stand before my maker and be asked “Why did you let this happen? What I gave you was a miracle and when it was faltering and under attack you did nothing. You had your opportunities, people tried to get you involved, and each time you turned away. What was more important to you than your life and your Freedom? What was more important to you than that miracle of the Constitution and the United States of America I had given you? You failed your country, you failed your fellow man, and you failed your God.”
I for one when standing before God and asked “What did you do to preserve the great miracle of this country I gave you when it was under attack?” I for one can say I fought for it God. I did not stick my head in the sand, or stare off into a t.v. while freedom, an inalienable right, handed down by you to us, was under attack. I did not think my time could be better spent by doing anything else. I wasn’t lazy, I worked all day and studied the history of the miracle that you gave us all night. I studied those that tried to change our Constitution to better fight them. I made my voice heard. I tried my best to wake others up. I fought for it God.

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