Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy Birthday, America!

We live in the most blessed country on the face of the earth. Think about it:
  1. When you reach for the faucet, do you have any doubt that, a) water will come out, and b) that it will be clean for either washing or consumption?
  2. We are free to complain about high prices on gas and electricity, and yet we have A/C, a vehicle to carry us places, and dry, comfortable well lit homes.
  3. Our food, which we did not grow, gets to our plate on heat we do not have to produce and is cleaned by instruments run by power we do not generate. We eat better at one meal than 3/4 of the world eats all day. Our garbage disposals eat better than those poor souls.
  4. We have schools for learning things which most of the world isn't even aware of.
  5. When we get sick or injured we have readily available, competent medical care.
  6. We have young men and women, in an all voluntary military no less, willing to stand in harms way to protect us from those who would do us harm! This boggles my pea-sized brain!

These are just a few of the thousands of things we, as a nation, are blessed by each and every day.

Freedom of speech, the press, religion, right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are just some of the things I am so thankful to God Almighty to have.

And it all starts with this:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

God bless you this week, and God bless America,
Steve