I cannot remember a single time, moment or situation in my life that I did not love America. The first set of books I ever asked for was about American History. The set of books gave a yearly timeline telling the historical events about individuals that believed in something, individuals that stood up for their convictions and individuals that put their lives on the live because of what they believed. One of the things I learned from reading about great leaders is their commitment to fight the cause, hold the line and push forward even when things didn’t go their way.
America is the greatest nation on the earth and I do not know of a single person that has ever experienced life in some another country that didn’t come away realizing that with all the issues in the land of Red White and Blue, we still live in the greatest land!
Not sure when it was that I learned respect for people and positions, but I did learn respect for people, all people and have attempted to practice that teaching all my life. I learned respect for the positions that people hold and I am thankful that I was taught that type of respect too. Positions I was taught to respect in life included family members like my grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, and adults in general. Younger people today have no respect for adults, but back in the day, if you said something that was not polite, or you acted “ugly”, well get ready, because your backside would become a heated spot to teach you that showing respect was an important principal to follow. Of course in today’s world, discipline a child and an adult will end up in jail.
One of the positions I have great respect for is that of elected officials. I have always viewed the Office of the President of the United States as a moral office, setting standards, providing vision, and leadership that helped to direct our country. I have not always agreed with our elected Presidents, and my ballot didn’t always make my choice the winner, but I always voted nevertheless. I have never been impressed with folks who only believed in their political parties or folks that believe the Republicans are right and the Democrats are wrong, or vice versa. I been both a Democrat and a Republican and I’ve voted Independent and do so proudly on all counts, but still never believed that one has the best interest of the country over the other.
President George W Bush on a trip to Iraq had a shoe thrown at him from a member of the press at a news conference. Iraq law has now been dispensed for that action taken by that individual and he will serve 3 years in prison for throwing his shoe at our President. The first thing I thought of when I read that story in the newspaper was what a different world the USA would be if you acted ugly toward our leaders and we locked you up? I guess this is could be one way to teach respect in America? I believe we would think twice before we said something not so nice or wished ill toward one of our leaders.
America provides the greatest earthly liberties to us, her occupants, and that freedom has arrived to us because of great cost to others who have fought for rights they only believed in, long before the dream was a reality.
Democracy and Freedom are words that are a perfect descriptive of American. Those words are as perfect as Eternity and Forgiveness. These words we can use as the perfect descriptive for a relationship with Jesus Christ. Not sure which set of words you might prefer over the other, but for me, I want all four words and both worlds…America and Heaven.
Until then
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