Fulfilling the Founding

So I gotta admit, I'm a movie junky. I love movies! Anyone who has spent more than ten minutes with me or anyone in my family knows how much we quote movies. They are part of are lives. We not only get 43.2 percent of our vocabulary from them but I would say we draw a fair amount of inspiration from them as well.

The point is that I spent three hours today watching "Brave Heart." (don't worry, it was edited) It was a great movie. I don't want to ruin for anyone so essentially it is about the Scottish Rebellion and there war for independence with England. The main character is William Wallace, a commoner who believed enough in his people and in his homeland to fight for their collective freedom.

Now I am sure that sounds cheesy but it is a great movie. What i learned from it though is what I thought I would share. It made make reflect a little bit on our freedom. Now not to get all historical, or Red-white-and blue on you but it really is an item of serious concern.

I think that with all of the things that are going on and do go on in our current government we lose sight of what it is really about. We have had the opportunity to be born in a nation that guarantees us rights just for being human beings, and whether we choose to believe it or not, it was a government established from a Constitution that was written by men inspired of God.

The Lord obviously has some kind of vested interest in this land that he would take care of it so well and would inspire men write the governing document according to His dictates. So what am trying to get across through all of this?

We should be thankful for what we have. We should be grateful that we have rights as simple as our freedom to express our views on blogs.

We should show our thanks by being good citizens. It is the simple things that make the difference, voting, understanding who it is that you are voting for and what they stand for.

Obeying the laws and upholding truth, and then later in life, teaching your children to do the same by word and deed.

That was my thought. We have something precious, and we live in a land choice about all the lands in the world, the scriptures say so. So lets do something about it.