Yes, vs. 14 is so good - so is Vs. 1 - the entire Psalm is good.
Miss Marple - your comments are so good and so important. We know the Demonrats are going to attempt to destroy President Bush in the eyes of Americans between now and November. They know no other strategy.
As you said - whenever we think about this, we must pray and we must act! We must write letters, we must call or email friends and family, we must get Republicans registered to vote!!!! (easy to do), and we must give whatever we can - strategically - to candidates who will make a difference.
Everyone can call their local Republican Party headquarters and volunteer somehow. They are so eager for help!
We are in more than just a war with terrorists. We are in a war with anti-American destroyers who are masquerading as "Americans" but whose hearts are allied with those who would see us dead....if it means they can gain power!
But, as you said, MM, PRAYER IS OUR GREAT WEAPON.
We get weary of the battle, I know. Our heart and souls yearn for a time when these enemies cease and desist in their destructive path.
But they will not - not in our lifetime - because they are energized and motivated by a godless lust for power.
So, what can we do? We can and must do every thing we can possibly think of to fight - and then, having done all, to stand, praying for our God to take care of the future....and of the President....and of this country.
At the end of the day - that is all we can do. For those who have come before us and those young ones coming along now and after us - we must do this.
And, the loud leftists make us think they are more than they are. Actually, they are quite a minority. If that were not true, they would not have to cheat to win. But they do have to cheat to win. That's the only way they can win today.
Still they are a danger because a powerful, amoral, ruthless, minority can takeover a country (as every Communist country is a witness) and bring devastation to it.
So, sadly, as long as we have breath, we will have this battle. It is the struggle between enslavement and freedom, between evil and good, between death and life. It has been going on from the beginning of man.
I wish things were different. We had this "Pax Americana" where it seemed we could rest (after WWII) and things would always be okay in this country - and good.
We were lulled into thinking that. I was.
1992 kicked me out of my slumber!
And, I suppose, there will never be a chance to go back to sleep now.
Somehow, out of all the devastation that was wrought since 1992 in this country, good things came. The 1994 "Revolution" which brought the unthinkable - Republican control of the Congress....and 2000....which brought us a Godly Republican man as our President....after 8 years of official godlessness!
There are so many problems in this country - and each of us has our own to deal with - but as those who came before us dealt with both their personal lives and the nation's challenges, so will we! We can do it! We must do it!