Tears are hard to shed these days as almost daily our world is rocked with yet another soul-shocking, terrorist event.  Not just politically motivated episodes pent on making a dent or movement in some global agenda, but rather scenes set at local grocery, housing or shopping malls.  Snapshots of terrified children, stricken parents and officers in full battle regalia indelibly inked upon our retinas and encoded to our memories.  Gone are the days when only soldiers faced post traumatic stress disorder, it has now come to our neighborhoods and high schools.  Our sensitivity has been numbed, our receptors narrowed or shut down our innocence lost without recovery hope.

“One nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All”,  a statement which has nearly been forgotten for lack of understanding and infrequent use. Analyze this statement for American Identity and you will see patriots who knew those things which must never be lost.  We are in current circumstances because we have taken for granted those things which brought abundance, safety and peace to our doorstep.  The only solution is to return to what we had done at first and allow the Lord to cleanse our collective hearts of sin and corruption and the overwhelming burden of weighty conscience.

Our hearts harden in final transition to lumps of coal incapable of love, humility and care.  We cannot turn away from our present course even though we know this shall dash the ship upon the rocks because we are unwilling/incapable of turning the ship again to the hope of open seas.  We have abandoned the Lord and so He has allowed the hand of evil to sift us like wheat.  The birth pangs have begun.  There is a season for repentance and change, but only a time.  I ask You Father to save us if it is Your Will to do so.  Make all hearts reflect, soften and return to their true foundation in Christ.  Allow us to offer each other compassion born of the Love You have shown us.  In Christ’s name I pray.  Amen