Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year.

• May we go forth into this new year with the Lord's blessing and guidance and be better than we were.
• May God grant us wisdom and knowledge and the strength to stand on our principles without compromise.
• May we, as a nation, never forget the author of the divine providence that has gifted us with a nation like no other throughout the last 200+ years and may we be grateful for all of His works.
• May we step up to defend our freedom and our faith unashamedly and without fear.
• May we hold our honor dear, as a nation and as individuals.
• May we understand and practice good manners.
• May we hold each other in our hearts as made in the image of God and therefore deserving of our love, even as God loves and died that His blood could cover each of us if we are willing to accept it.
• May we understand that free will is the greatest gift that God has bestowed upon us and may we cherish it as we turn to God to do His will out of that freedom.
• May we recognize the need, as did our founders, to pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to the maintenance of this great nation and may we not waver from that pledge when the time comes to realize that such things will be required of us.
• May we remember that although our opinions may divide us, we are one nation.
• May we defend her as the gift of Almighty God to free and independent people.
  
  "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. "~Romans 5:18

Happy New Year

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year.

As I enter this new year I find myself thinking of a quote from former president, Ronald Reagan:

“The character that takes command in moments of crucial choices has already been determined by a thousand other choices made earlier in seemingly unimportant moments. It has been determined by all the ‘little’ choices of years past—by all those times when the voice of conscience was at war with the voice of temptation, [which was] whispering the lie that ‘it really doesn’t matter.’ It has been determined by all the day-to-day decisions made when life seemed easy and crises seemed far away—the decision that, piece by piece, bit by bit, developed habits of discipline or of laziness; habits of self-sacrifice or self-indulgence; habits of duty and honor and integrity—or dishonor and shame.”

May we all look to our small choices that our crucial ones will be those that we would have them be, to be the sort of people our children can respect and emulate.

" Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. "~Psalm 32;9