[mrspeelwerneeded]

How many people in this country even realize it’s about more than partying and fireworks? What a sad situation we find ourselves in.

[Servant of the Cross]

How many people in this country even realize it’s about more than partying and fireworks?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! ... Abraham Lincoln (1863)

We have had dark periods in our history and persevered. Remember, it's always darkest before the dawn!

[supremedoctrine]

In a man-on-the-street interview I heard on the radio yesterday, a woman was asked if she knew what the 4TH OF July celebrated and she said......”The first fireworks...?”