‘FREEDOM!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 708

November 5, 2024///

Before I begin my thoughts for today, I want to urge you to vote. If you are receiving this as an email you have most of the day to vote and if you are reading it when it is posted to Joshua’s Place face book, you have a little time, but you need to hurry.

Voting is a privilege we have in the United States that much of the world do not have! May we not waste our right to let our preference known!

Now to today’s thoughts! As I was thinking about what the outcome of this election means to our nation my mind went to the original price paid for the freedoms we enjoy. There have been high prices paid since then also but let us look at the beginning.

Our ancestors decided they wanted the Freedoms of living life and worshipping God as they pleased. They came with force against taxation without representation, they were forced to endure! And they fought long and hard and came out victorious.

Lives were lost and many lives have been lost since fighting for our freedom to keep the United States our country with representation!

I shudder to think of what those original fighters would think of our country not fighting the enemy but fighting each other and hate and division rampant!

United we stand and divided we fall! Which category do we want to be in? We must come together as a nation and clean up our morals and look to the God of our Fathers to set this Nation: “ONE NATION UNDER GOD,” straight!

I am going to reprint here the words to the “Star Spangled Banner,” and on this election day I encourage you to read and think about every word!

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“STAR SPANGLED BANNER”

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Whеre the foe’s haughty host in drеad silence reposes
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

When our land is illumined with Liberty’s smile
If a foe from within strike a blow at her glory
Down, down with the traitor that dares to defile
The flag of her stars and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained, who our birthright have gained
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained!
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
While the land of the free is the home of the brave

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Did you notice the last verse! Foes from within. Is that what is happening, are foes from within threatening our very freedoms many died for?

May we be strong in the Lord and continue to pray for unity and right in our country and may we honor the Flag that many are burning!

Voting and prayer are both privileges. May we use both to the fullest!

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Father, thank you for those who had a vision of freedom of life and liberty lived fully. May they not have died in vain to give us privileges we do not deserve if we are going to walk in hate and evil toward each other. Forgive us for our attitudes and help us to remember that Freedom is never Free! Thank you that Jesus paid the price for our ultimate Freedom through Him! In His wonderful name I pray! Amen!

Love, MeMaw!