Sacrifice of Others

Have you ever pondered how the sacrifice of others has made or makes your life possible?

For instance when we were kids we never dwelt on how much Mom or Dad sacrificed to put food on the table every meal. We just sat down and dug in. Just think about the hours working earning the money to buy the food, the labor in meal planning, cooking, and the cleaning up afterwards. Now that some of us are grown up with families of our own we are just beginning to truly see and appreciate the countless sacrifices our existence has required.

Almost everything we enjoy in life has come through the hard work of others. The items we purchase in the store, the cars we drive, the businesses we work at, our education, the beds we sleep in, the homes we live in, the wood we used to construct our homes, and even the air we breathe and for those who are blessed by it....the salvation of our very souls... can be attributed to the hard work, ingenuity, careful thought, and grudging or loving sacrifice of either mortal man or God Himself. None of us are self sufficient...with any meditation on our dependency we can see how any such thought is mere ignorant pride. Even if we lived in the days when men grew their own food and felled their own trees to build their houses we would still need God to supply the rain and fertile soil in which to grow our food. No two ways around it we certainly need God for survival here on earth and in the afterlife....and I have already made the case for needing others here on earth in this post-modern world we now live in.

Take a moment to humbly reflect on the sacrifices others make to bless your family. Think about God's Supreme Sacrifice given for your soul's salvation. Then think about what you are sacrificing for the well being of others. Do you give it cheerfully or grudgingly? Then search your soul deeply; are you sacrificing anything for God? If so do you sacrifice it cheerfully and humbly or grudgingly and hatefully?

Remember God says He loves a cheerful giver! Are you busy giving cheerfully? Think and pray about it.

Vote!! Vote!! Vote!!

The last day before the election and the politicians are out in numbers in Missouri. Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Hussein Obama, and even Hilary Rodham Clinton will make an appearance here today. Each one of them are trying to persuade you to vote for them tomorrow. Each one of them with distinctive views on where this country should be headed.

So much is at stake in this election....if you value your freedom and want America to keep the same great liberties we have experienced for 232 years your choice on which canidate to vote for could enable those freedoms to survive or could begin the dismantling of what we have always known America to be. Barack Hussein Obama in a recent comment said he wanted to create a civilian task force....Sounds a little bit like the KGB to me. He has also said our founding fathers squelched our liberties and didn't go far enough....they didn't spread the wealth. Hello!!! that was because they weren't creating a communist country.

Will this man even spend one day in the White House holding up the Constitution? So far his statements all point to the fact that he thinks he could have done better than our founding fathers. He isn't happy with our nation...the way it has been for 232 years....he wants to change it. Is that what you want? Do you honestly think we would be better off if we were more like the nations in the European Union? Does the United Nations have the answers on a better form of government with members like China and Russia? They make a lot of proclaimations but they turn out to be clouds with no water all they know is how to oppress a people successfully.

Government is not God and cannot solve our nation's ills. Vote to protect the freedom that allows us to turn to the ONE TRUE GOD who can heal our land.

I am voting for John McCain and then I'm praying for him because he doesn't have all the answers either....because he is a mere mortal man....he will just hopefully allow us to continue to live in the freedom to pursue life and liberty....without telling us how much we can make, buy, or own...and without a new version of the KGB.