Well, Christmas 2013 is a memory, and now we’re moving on down the road toward 2014.

Before you know it everyone will be talking about spring, then Memorial Day, then 4th of July, then Labor Day, then Halloween, and then we’ll all be talking about how early the Christmas music seems to be playing this year.

As the poet (or some sort of writer or philosopher) said…”time waits for no man.” The seconds tick in the rhythm of our hearts. And our hearts beat out the minutes and hours of our days. Then the days advance like an inspired army into the open arms of each passing year. There’s nothing we can do about it…or to turn back the days…or to even stop the advance. We’ll just keep moving on down the road.

But what we can do something about is “the road”.

Which road? Will we walk, run, or drive on the road? Where does the road go? These are questions within our powers to answer.

At least they’re in our power to answer as long as we don’t continue to vote ourselves deeper and deeper into tyranny. It’s ironic that America, the ultimate symbol of freedom in the history of the world, should find itself on the brink of suicide. President Abraham Lincoln talked about this in an address to the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois in 1838.

He said…

“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

And as we continue to reduce our own strengths and therefore embolden our enemies, we keep moving on down the road toward self-destruction. The irony is…it’s all so avoidable. It only takes freemen (and women) to stand up and say “enough!”

In Faith, Hope, and Love,

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