Crossroads, Constitutions, and God

My Fellow Countrymen of the United States of America. What have we become?

I remember 15 short years ago we were rocked by attacks on our country by radicals, extremists and those who hate our country and our way of life. After those attacks we were for a short while united in our cause and in our resolve. As time passed we became a divided people. a cynical people, a people that lost its focus and faith. We passed a crossroad and from what I can see we took the wrong fork in the road. Today the world not just our country faces great evil. There are all together too many times we turn on the news and hear of genocide, bombings, threats and horrible acts of violence. We are again at a crossroads, I guess really we come to those all of the time. Each of us arrive at them at different moments in our lives. I have seen people make a choice at these cross roads entering that intersection with hope and faith only to have that hope and faith trampled, muddied, and changed as they continue on the path. I have witnessed others go down the the path they have chosen so blinded by ignorance, and narrow field of vision that by the time they realize they have made the wrong choice it is often too late. If you have fond that you are there if you think it is too late, if you have been beaten down and had your faith and trust all but destroyed, I ask you to pause, take stock of where and who you are. In reality it is never too late. You can reverse your direction. If you still have a glimpse of hope, you can kindle its fire.
Our Founding Fathers were wise, they had many crossroads. Many Americans believe that once we deafened the brattish all our troubles were over. They were not. Our fledgling country struggled not only in trying to make a place for us in the world, but we struggled mostly from with in. trying to decide how and what our nation would look like. We had a flawed articles of confederation, that did nothing to unify us. Honest men, brave men, men of principle and vision met and for months discussed, debated and deliberated to come up with what we know as the Constitution of the United Sates of America.

The Preamble of the Constitution says so much in so few words.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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

This document was provided for us through blood and sweat and great risk. These men struggled to form something that had never existed before in the Governments of this earth. At one point when all seemed to be at risk, a wise Benjamin Franklin reminded them of higher power.

"The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other---our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.

In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.-Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

I therefore beg leave to move-that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business"                   Quote from the constitutional convention attributed to Benjamin Franklin

As each of us approach our crossroads, may we also follow the council to involve and invoke that God will provide his guiding hand in the Preservation, Protection and Defense of our country and constitution.

Buy Yours here

May we elect Good men and Women that will restore our trust in our Government. May we set aside the differences we have and work together to build on those things that are truly important. May we live our lives so that the great God of Heaven  can pour out his blessings upon us.

May God Bless us as we cross the roads that lay before us, and may He bless The United States of America