HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA! July 4th

Today is the day when the Constitution was actually signed. We had escaped, through blood and sweat, the tyranny of foreign powers telling us what to do. So now, here we are 200+ years later, and we find ourselves in the same spot our Founding Fathers were in. Foreign powers are telling our 'leaders' what they should to be doing. We need the Lord to help us through. Here are some more thoughts from our Founding Fathers, as well as a couple of others:

"And the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only basis: a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble when I reflect that God is just: that His justice cannot sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson

"I've lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: That God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We've been assured in the sacred writings that unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who built it." Benjamin Franklin

"America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are 'One Nation Under God', then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan

"Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe." James Madison

"We are a Christian people...not because the law demands it, not to gain exclusive benefits or to avoid disabilities, but from choice and education; and in a land thus universally Christian, what is to be expected, what desired, but that we shall pay due regard to Christianity?" Senate Judiciary Committee Report, January 19, 1853


"Is it not that in the human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?--that it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?" John Quincy Adams

"An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!...Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power...Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God Who presides over the destinies of nations and Who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us...Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry


"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom He hath chosen for his inheritance." Psalm 32:12



About that sparrow thing, just a comment. That verse where we are told that God knows if a sparrow falls and that the hairs on a man's head are numbered, I realized something: My head is making that task easier for Him.

Anyway, today I'm going to sit back, watch some fireworks, listen to some John Philip Sousa marches, and have a Sam Adams beer.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and a quote from St. Anselm: 'If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many...'