Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 806
September 22, 2026///
This year we celebrated 250 years as a Nation! The past has been filled with victories and trouble but as a nation we have always persevered!
In this 250th year may I share what some of the heroes of Faith and our country said!
GEORGE WASHINGTON: “I am sure there never was a people who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs than those of the United States: and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency which was so often manifested during our Revolution – or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who alone is able to protect them.”
MARY ANN BICKERDYKE: As a nurse caring for enlisted men in the Civil War, she was questioned about her authority to do what she did and she replied: “On the authority of Lord God Almighty; have you anything that outranks that?”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: “I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God’s side.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Other heroes include: D.L. Moody, Lottie Moon, Fanny Crosby, Jim Elliot and more recently Mother Teresa and Billy Graham! I encourage you to look up some of their contributions to the Gospel of “compassion in action” of these.
Regardless of what those who cannot see truth say this country was founded by men and women who had Faith in a God who created them and who decided: The just shall live by Faith!
They did what they could, and we need to keep the Faith and stand for right and do what we can to live the powerful truth of the gospel!
One of the most important places to show that love and compassion is in our homes! If we desire change for the good in the United States and a revival of truth in our leaders, it needs to start in our hearts and homes!
Think about how important or unimportant the truth that God Loves you and Jesus died for you is in our home each day! We serve the Lord God who wants to be part of our lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it starts where we live!
My desire is that as you read this you understand that everything you do needs to be done to the best of your ability and as unto the Lord!
Invite your creator God, the one who created you and knows you better than anyone else and loves you more than you can understand, into every second of your life!
Your children and everyone you see each day will be affected by it!
I want you to join me in praying for your home this prayer I have on our refrigerator! It is a simple prayer for your home!
DEAR GOD, BLESS THIS HOME WITH YOUR PEACE AND LOVE!
MAY ALL WHO ENTER HERE EXPERIENCE YOUR CALMING EMBRACE.
MAY WE BE FILLED WITH KINDNESS, PATIENCE, AND UNDERSTANDING TOWARD ONE ANOTHER, AND MAY WE ALWAYS SEEK TO BRING JOY AND HARMONY INTO OUR HOME. AMEN!
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Father, thank you for loving us even when we do not acknowledge your love! Open our hearts to your presence, peace and joy and help us follow your footsteps of compassion and love each day! Fill our homes with you Holy Spirit and let revival begin deep in each of us and may we realize this nation was established on the foundational truths of the Bible! Set each of us free from the influence of evil and fill us with your light and love so that we can shine and affect the darkness around us! I pray this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ! Amen!
Love, MeMaw!
