As hard as I try, I cannot remember when we reached the tipping point.  That place where “the right to choose” came to mean death to a child in the womb.  That place where “freedom of speech” began to give cover to pedophiles (NAMBLA) and every other degenerate that lives amongst us.  The time before a judge ordered a medical treatment team to withhold nourishment from a woman who had no voice. That bright day before some obscure little city decided it best to deny a firefighter with dyslexia his due merited promotion in the name of some new world “equality”.  Better days.  Days where we could still see the best in people and had some measure of hope for the future of our country and those who love it.

As much as I bemoan the current state of our country, I realize it is the freedom, the choice that has brought us here.  And if the masses choose to give up that freedom, what happens to the rest of us?  For me, I can say that my freedom is a direct extension of the covenantal relationship with my God.  Man doesn’t have control over that.  But as for the state of America, that is a different case entirely.America was built on a foundation that acknowledged that mere human beings do not have all of the answers.  The created are merely here as an extension of the creator.  Once that belief is removed, compartmentalized, minimized, is it any wonder that everything built on top of that foundation is collapsing around us?  Walls cannot stand where the foundation is weak.  And nothing weakens a foundation more than pulling the very things from it that made it strong to begin with.  

Is there hope?  As long as we have breath, I suppose there is a measure of hope.  Hope that one day people will rise up and shake off the chains that bind us as a nation and choose to go a different way.  A way that values life.  A way that values creation.  A way that respects the fundamental beliefs that America was founded on.  Because if there is no hope what are we left with?  If we don’t have that common ground, what exactly are we standing on?