Guess What?

I have always been patriotic....would you expect less from a military family plus being born on the 4th of July which gave me a double dose!
Now I see, and experience personally, my America at a cross+roads. Many years ago I was taking a creative writing course at the European Military Division of University of Maryland.

I chose as one of my assignments....America At The CrossRoads
I wrote, I prayed, I wrote some more, I prayed some more....and then a strange thing happened.

My minds eye opened up to what, if anything, could undermine the strength of this great country America as I knew it then.
It was not 'things' ,arnaments, power, finanial successes etc.
It was....the hearts of the people who were developing, shaping the children, leaders as role models and Mothers. The character of the people of America could be the 'undermining' of the country itself!

In the past, great people of character, integrity, ethics, morals and plain ole 'good manners' were the making and shaping of this great land of ours as it was then in 1980 when I was writing my assignment.
It stands to reason that when those character traits no longer ruled in the hearts....America would change.
I could not concieve of that ever happening in my dear precious America.
After all, we were a Christian nation whose sense of decency was founded on many amazing documents but mostly....on the Ten Commandments.

Now as I write on July 4, 2009.....I am shocked to see....what I see.
Blatent corruption in role models and leadership of all levels...to include the family home.
I am sad....as if a precious family member has died and left a empty spot in my heart. I thought I would never see this day.
Yes, I am grieving BUT life goes on with or without me....this is my reality.
America is at the cross+roads and we can not bury our heads in the sand any longer.

I can not 'afford' this misery in my heart.

So I go to my spiritual Fax and read these words from

The Message Bible (and it is my personal message as well)

Zechariah 8:14-17....Keep Your Lives Simple and Honest

A message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

"Don't be afraid.

And now here's what I want you to do:

tell the truth, the whole truth, when you speak.

Do the right thing by one another, both personally and in your courts.

Don't cook up plans to take unfair advantage of others.

Don't do or say what isn't so.

I hate all that stuff.

Keep your lives simple and honest." Decree of God

....The Living Bible give me the true solution....Zechariah 46....

This is God's message...."Not by might, nor by power, but

BY MY SPIRIT, says the Lord Almighty---

you will succeed because of My Spirit, though you are few and weak."

2 Chronicles 7:14 (New King James Version)
14 "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."

Please join with other 'faith believing Americans' and myself as we pray the above words back to God so that He, by HIS Spirit, will heal our land.

May God truly BLESS America as we Celebrate, by faith, this 'answer to prayer'.