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It is that time of year again. Many of us are getting ready to celebrate our nation’s birthday. Whether we stay at home and have a barbecue, or perhaps go up to the lake, or gather with others in a city park to watch the fireworks, we all have our forms of celebration.

There is nothing wrong with celebrating our freedom. We are still one of the few countries that have the ability to worship, play, work, and live as we choose. There are many countries who have a semblance of freedom, but when push comes to shove their freedoms are much more limited than ours, and for most of them the idea of any kind of freedom is just a dream. Many of them hunger to have what we have.

We relish the idea that in America we can do just about anything we want. Some of us appreciate what we have, others take advantage of it, but if we pay attention to what is going on around us, our liberties are beginning to slip from our grasp.

In the last couple of years, there are many who have lost their homes due to foreclosure. There are many who are out of work and must rely on the kindness of others just to survive. Some of our men and women are still overseas fighting battles that politicians think we should be involved in. Our country is changing, and while some love the idea of certain ideologies becoming more to their liking, the liberties that we have loved and taught our children about are starting to fade into history. Is this what America really wants?

I really do not think so, but it seems as if our eyes have been clouded over, or perhaps we have just given up. Many of us can look at our children and what is normal for them, and then we look back to when we were their age and realize the American Dream is not what it used to be.

Gone is the idea that you could go to work out of high school or college and retire from the same job many years later. Most of us have worked more jobs in just a few years than we care to count. Many have no real retirement savings to depend on when we get elderly, or even enough money set aside for college for our children.

There was a time when we had real freedom, but we kept desiring more and more  of our idea of freedom at the expense of others, and now it is costing us. Our nation is ravished by impending debt to where if things do not change, America as we know it will cease to exist. It is already happening in many areas of our lives. It is not everyone’s dream anymore to grow up, get married, work, have our own home, and raise our children in a safe environment.

What changed? Too much independence? Too many people taking advantage of each other? Jealousy? Rage? Sin? All of the above and more. America needs to revisit its roots, and return to the reason our country was born.

We claim the freedom of worship that brought our forefathers here,  but even that is disappearing.

It is time for us as Americans to return to prayer and worship. I am not saying you have to believe, or pray, or even go to the same church I do, but if you look around with the things we all are facing, and look forward to what our kids will see, you have to come to the same conclusion I have. Pray for America. It isn’t just about politics or ideas, but all of us need to take some time and remember who we were, what our destiny was meant to be, and who we have become.

Pray for America.

I challenge you this Independence Day to take a few moments  before you indulge and celebrate by shooting off fireworks, eating that big slice of pie or watermelon, spend time with family and pray for America. We all need it.

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