A PLACE TO START AND A PLACE TO END

Greetings in the name of Jesus:


When I picture the start of our country I think of a group of people coming to escape something in the ways all immigrants pick up and move their lives to a different place.  When we first came here it was the promise of the freedom to worship God and carve out a new and better life.

  I tend to believe the reasons we were successful was because we included our worship of God in everything that we did, and the rest of it was worked out between groups of people who were simply trying to survive. In those days it was a learning process to find food and develop a way of life from those who had worked it out long before we came.  We brought potatoes, and they showed us how to raise corn, and at first, we did very well until the greed of men took over.  The mentality went from hunter-gatherer to simply gatherer of anything and all of what we could.  The most valuable was the land itself, and if the Indians were not going to lay claim to owning it we would.  The American Dream soon became to own a piece of what before was everyone's to share.  The truth is that the Indian was right to look at this world as our Mother in that sense and to respect her.

  Today we celebrate the freedoms we have, but not as a people who have accepted those who were here before us, but more as conquerors, and takers of what was rightfully the possession of all men naturally through the mercies of God.  We were successful only because we also brought the word of God with us to this land, and maintained the right to worship God as individuals.  We have just finished with our celebration of Thanksgiving, which seems more and more hollow each year without any concept of what we are thankful for.

  Our ideas of what that freedom is have changed from a shared belief to a singular tantrum from individuals who simply feel they have the right to have anything they want without consequences, and that is just wrong.  We have had it all since way before the 1960s yet we have not been responsible for teaching our children anything much about where we came from or why we each have made that pilgrimage.  Those who are a part of today's pilgrims are also being manipulated by greed and an evil intent of using them for political gain.  It is that ever-present evil that continues to be unleashed on this country by outside influences that desperately needs to be stopped.  Money and power should not control our mindset toward what brought us here in the first place. This Season of our celebration can we stop to look around us as we react to what we see before we get it wrong again?  We don't really own anything in this world; we just claim everything we see...its time to change that mindset.  May you richly bless God through your life in Him.




THE UNWORTHY SERVANT