I'm worried. I was born in a country that had faults, surely, but had an internal mechanism for correction because it was guided by acknowledgement of a moral absolute, a standard, a just, righteous, holy and unique God. God didn't go anywhere. He is real. He exists and we only exist because of Him, but our nation has turned away from truth, and hence, it will lose its course. It's that simple.
Our course in history has been as protector and blessed nation. Has the nation's people always conducted themselves rightly? No, but they always strove toward that goal and hence, slavery was abolished, civil rights were instituted, massacres were eventually if not timely, addressed and ills within the practice of this society came to light and were voted into correction.
I'm a rational and educated woman. I have advanced degrees and even more advanced personal accomplishments. The Bible is a true document that stands as authentic and unique among all of history and literature. One would have to study to know this. Many have and many do. I, also, know this, and knowing this, I also know what trends assert themselves that have been long ago foretold. I know what end global warming, trouble in the Middle East, and celestial phenomena will come to. I know where this is going, not the timetable, but certainly the trajectory.
What I did not expect, never wanted to dread, was a departure of my own people from a sure inheritance of justice, peace, honor and good will we have worked, and sometimes fought, so hard to obtain. As we embrace radicalism we will in effect, move from that natural tendency for ethical correction into a realm of "anything goes."
When anything goes, everything goes.
I am so proud of the civil boundaries we've eliminated. There is a reason to this marvelous social and civic evolution that we are forgetting. "One Nation Under God" means we have a compass set to True that though the vessel waft, it will never truly wander.
We're a ship with no steerage if we abandon the God who has blessed this verdant nation with unprecedented bounty. God is love and as we truly follow the teachings left us in a document unlike any other, we follow the example of a man who two thousand years ago was the greatest promoter of human sanctity and liberty who lived before or since.
Our own churches, our own most visible practitioners who profess to follow God behave as the "enemy in the camp," ever begging for funds and working toward one purpose of personal prosperity thereby discrediting the truth they pretend to preach. Even this would correct over time if our country's leaders continued to direct their actions by first seeking guidance and wisdom.
When we look to a star for direction, we're acknowledging something beyond ourselves, needed in order to sustain our way. When we pray, we are doing no more than that, realizing that for a straight course, one must tie to something stationary and beyond one sole self. Our mortal lives are transitory so there must be something else that is not. How is it that each finite being can raise a fist and deny that there is anything greater than the arm which holds that defiant hand?
To whom does it protest?
Oh my people, you are losing your way and I am sad.
