THIS IS HOW WE DID IT! - Just a Minute -- July 4th, 2008

Hello on the 4^th of July!

 

Hope you’re having a GREAT Independence Day. If you read yesterday’s blog… you see the extravagance with which John Adams expected Independence to be celebrated. It’s also worth dearly remembering what the cost of independence was and is. There are forces unleashed in today’s world who regard America at “The Great Satan” – some of them right here among us. We must be forbearing – but not so open minded we have our brains fall out.

 

In any case, the pledge of the founders to mutually put on the line “Our lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” – is challenging even today 232 years later.  And for those signers of the Declaration… it did cost many of them practically everything. Last night I heard a friend tell of the life of his son, the only fatality during the arrest of Manuel Noriega in Panama. That’s a cost now 29 years ago which can never be replaced. And since then thousands more have paid the ultimate price for guarding our freedom, liberty and happiness. It’s a stirring recounting – but not just symbols – These are real people, real losses, real deaths that are the fabric of the lives we are able to enjoy in America today.

 

Among all the hoop-la of the Fourth – which is jubilant – but also should have a solemn underlayment – Let us recall with thankfulness, those who have paid whatever costs to preserve our nation which so abundantly allows us to worship the Lord our God in the manner we believe is true to Him. Freedom *isn’t* free – it has come at a great price. Let us honor today and every day, those who helped make it happen, under God.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

THIS IS HOW WE DID IT

Just A Minute – Meeting in steamy Philadelphia July 1776 – our nation’s fathers mutually pledged “their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.”  On this day 232 years later, we relish the blessings of liberty those men – who decided to pray each day – set in motion

Fortunately, there was no ACLU to tell Ben Franklin or George Washington prayer was a no, no.  So the pen of Jefferson aided by his fellow Virginian, George Mason, poured forth the immortal words:

“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

            Then we come to the certain unalienable Rights -- Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness – with which they understood their Creator had endowed them.

So … recall – these are the powerful words behind the fireworks, the parades, and the prayers.

            May the Lord, indeed, bless us all!

            <> I’m Jack Buttram

           

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