Independence Day

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

-Samuel Adams

Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety.

-Benjamin Franklin

Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

-John Adams

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

-Thomas Jefferson

Today we celebrate our country’s independence. While certainly our country has lost much of its morality, godliness, and common sense, we are still without a doubt the finest country in the world. No other place on earth offers the opportunities nor freedoms we have here. Sure, we complain about taxes, unjust wars, current political candidates, and abortion; some of us have ceased to see the many privileges of being an American.

However, our founding fathers are likely turning in their graves at the current state of liberty. The previous paragraph notwithstanding, we are losing liberties like I lose iPods. The situation is probably more serious than most people realize.

All this to say, we probably need to slack off on the complaining and step up our prayers for this great country.

Anyways, have a good Independence Day, and Caleb, please, please stay away from pyrotechnics.

~ by lifetapestry on July 4, 2008.