Celebrating this Great Country!

I can't believe that it is July! My word! The time has flown by since I began this journey! I am so grateful to all of you who have read (and prayed) me through these posts.

So this whole business of celebrating the Birth of the Country has gotten me thinking some. What blessings God has bestowed on this country! The freedoms that many many countries do not have that we take for granted. Me, a woman, a working mom, talking openly about her Christian faith on the Internet...unheard of in countries. The fact that I can FREELY talk about Jesus, that I can FREELY talk about Jesus and I am a woman...is a blessing.

I am so not into the whole thing of political parties. I am into a free nation where basic human rights and respect for others. I am into people having an acceptable quality of life.  I am into sharing the gospel of Christ openly cause I serve a loving and forgiving God...not a political party, not a Congress, not a President.
What has been given to them, can be taken away. 

What a great country we live in. I want God to bless the USA! I want Him to bless this country so much that my heart aches for the day that this country doesn't have poor, homeless, crime. I want Him to bless each person so much that their hearts overflow with the love of Christ that we are intended to feel. I want Him to bless this country so that there is an abundance of food and clean water so that we can fulfill our Christian duties to feed the hungry and clothe the poor.

We are so blessed as a country, that we don't even realize it. Our service men and women have awarded us freedoms from oppression and we need to pray for them and the countries that don't have the same freedoms. We have so much. Our homeless have the choice and options to seek help. We have services for the poor and destitute. We have programs for the needy, the abused, the broken. Other countries don't.  We have power and the freedom of speech to tell others of a Love so great that we can heal them with our words.

I love this country! I might not agree with everything. But I get on my knees and I pray for help. If it is for the courage to change things, the strength to carry someone through the times of struggle, for peace in my heart, this country, this world.

I am so blessed and honored to live in a country that is free. That God has blessed with freedom. Our country was founded on Christianity. How beautiful is that!? God is good! Let us take this freedom and teach, love, hold, and pray for each other! God is good! So good! And it is by His Grace and Mercy we are free! Freedom is ours and God has granted it to us!

Have a safe and blessed Fourth of July! May God lay on your hearts a day of remembrance of freedom and love for this country that you haven't felt before!