9/11 Lest We Never Forget...fly our flag
Hard to believe it's been 9 years...

We were watching Fox News last night as they broadcast achieves of 9/11, a horrible day that would change our lives forever as well as our day of life. In reflection I remember the day vividly. I was listening to the radio while getting ready for work. There was a news break - probably an understatement. I remember telling Roger, "quick, turn on the TV". He turned it on just in time to watch the second tower being hit. Unbelievable! We both shared a lot of mixed feelings. Do I continue getting ready and going in to work, do I call our daughter immediately - she and her husband living in East Africa. Of course I was concerned about them and where they live. Also, during times of uncertainty, we all want to be with family and friends.

Since the 2001 attack on the USA our lives are very different. We went back to our churches, prayed, became patriotic once again. And yes, knew we were at war. We became willing to give up some particular liberties to protect liberty in general. That might even be an oxymoron. We went through a real estate boom then a decline. We've held to presidential elections since then. Economic, turmoil, unrest, uncertainty and so much in between.

We now live in an era that young adults have never heard of the former President Ronald Reagan. A president that lead the rescue of the economy with mortgage interest rates of 18% and made being an American something one would be proud of. We also have children born around and right after 9/11 that have entered a very different US than the one we grew up in as baby boomers.

While I do not put my faith or hope in government, one needs to ask should we participate in the preservation of our form of government? Why you might ask? I'd be happy to answer that. We are a Federal Republic, federal meaning covenant - that's a term we aren't used to hearing. What does it mean? Covenant is a legal binding agreement between two or more parties to do or not do something specified. Let's look at covenant the way the authors of our founding documents did. It is important to note that those authors were believer is God. I did not say all of them were Christians. So, a covenant is the strict biblical sense is not a joint obligation but rather a commitment one makes to another. Interesting all of our founding documents including our state constitutions give reference to God, our creator.

Therefore, a covenant republic, a Constitutional Republic, is a republic that is governed by binding documents, not by the whim of a group of people - much like democracies. Remember when we pledge allegiance to our flag we end with, with liberty and justice for all.

Liberty is not cheap, nor is it free. One need only to remember Christ's death burial and resurrection to truly know that.

So fly the flag and as one patriot said, let's roll...

Living in Interesting Times

Well, we definitely are living in interesting times!

We are living in an era of calling right wrong and wrong right. A time where it's "all about me"! How much longer do you think we can survive as a society, a nation?

Just this weekend one of the primary presidential candidates "came clean" in his "all about me" mistake!?! I don't know about you but how can he call an extra-marital affair with a woman on the campaign trail and an all too possible "love child" with a supportive wife, who just happens to have incurable cancer, by his side campaigning for him, a mistake. Webster defines a mistake as an error or fault in action, judgment, perception, understanding, etc.

Again, I don't know about you, but to me the office of president is one of leadership, to be a statesman. So, I went back to Webster's.... leadership - the office, position, or capacity of a leader; guidance. Ability to lead, exert authority, etc. Just what guidance or authority would this presidential want-to-be offer.

And yes again, I don't know about you, but I'm sick of the double standard in our political parties when it comes to infidelity. Why is it the liberals say that it doesn't matter regarding a persons personal chananagines. And why is it "these" women, spouses, of "these" men continue to stand by their man (don't think this is what Tammy Wynett had in mind with her song!). What a double standard and so much for the women's movement. Wasn't the women's movement about equality? Equality would include respect for women right? While I would not be a proponent of divorce. One needs to ask the question, when these women stay with these men, showing no respect for the woman they are married to....isn't this the height of humiliation and the wife being complicit? These women need to know they hurt all women when they do not call their spouses into account for their actions.

Lastly, we need to call a spade a spade. Think about it before your next conversation at the "water cooler"!