Memorial Day

Almighty God, you have given us this good land for our heritage. We humbly ask you that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of your favor and glad to do your will. Bless our land with honorable endeavor, sound learning and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord and confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way.
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitude brought here out of many nations and tongues. Endow with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in your name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to your law we may show forth your praise among the nations on earth. In time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble do not allow our trust in you to fail. Amen.

Thomas Jefferson

We began with an awareness of our need for God's help in maintaining the goodness of America.


We have been recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these things were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Abraham Lincoln

Years later we recognized that we were straying from God's ways in spite of all God had given us.

O Merciful God, we cry to Thee for pardon and for mercy. We are "an unbelieving and perverse generation." We are disobedient, disloyal and ungrateful to Thee. We have excluded Thee from our homes, our schools, our business places. We are no longer worthy to be called Thy
children. But Merciful God, spare America! Forgive us! Save us from the scourge which we have
deserved. Teach us Thy Law, and move our wills to serve Thee, henceforth. Merciful God, please
spare America.
Apostles of the Holy Spirit

In these times we have strayed far, far away from our Creator. If we fail to return, God will once and for all turn His back on America. On this Memorial Day when we remember the many who gave their lives to preserve our liberty, pray that we may once again become the people God once blessed in the founding of America.

Israel

More and more I am truly concerned about the Arab/Muslim/Palestinian attitude toward Israel. When they are teaching even their children to hate Jews and to kill them, it can't end well. What Glenn Beck said last night is true. The Palestinians are provoking Israel in every way but when Israel responds, then Palestine will cry to the world, "Aggressor!" This is being created as a Catch-22 situation for Israel. No matter how you feel about Israel, it can't be a good thing that this plan is being put in place. No matter what Israel does, the Arab/Muslim/Palestinians will never cease wanting to wipe them off the face of the earth. And when or if they succeed, then they will come for the United States. Don't think they won't!

With Egypt re-forming the Nazi party openly, what we said would never happen again is being planned. We said we would never forget, but have we? It is sad to think that some of the people who fought in that war or were victims of the Holocaust are still alive but some countries are planning the very same thing again. Don't stick your head in the sand or blindly refuse to see what is happening. It will certainly not stop with Israel! All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men and women do nothing. Do something!