Saturday, May 7, 2011

Reflections on Freedom this Mother's Day



Before a woman becomes a mother she has high hopes and dreams for the future of her child yet unborn. Hopes not just for tomorrow, but also extending far into the future when her child would reach adulthood; however, with the first cry of that baby, more immediate concerns like the next bottle to be filled or the next diaper change are more pressing in her mind. The busyness of childrearing takes the place of watchfulness of the trends in world events; but, once the child grows into adulthood it becomes clearer just exactly what kind of world she has bequeathed to her child. For moms around our country this has become a source of worry because our government seems to have been infiltrated by Progressives, Socialists, and Marxists while we were busy putting a roof over our kids’ heads.

Perhaps the job of reawakening the spirit of freedom and liberty falls upon the shoulders of the generation that is old enough to remember what freedom and liberty feels like and still young enough to do something about it. Our children were indoctrinated by our schools while we were busy working. They haven’t been taught to hold dear to the American ideals that made this country great. It is imperative that they be taught just what exactly is slipping through their fingers. They need to understand why our founding fathers vowed their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to secure freedom for our budding nation and why we too must renew with vigor the fight for freedom because once freedom is lost it is rarely if ever recovered. Freedom is the rare exception rather than the rule in the history of our world. It is a treasure that we must protect with every fiber of our being.

It is with great hopefulness that the new mothers of today are braving the current uncertainties with an eye for making tomorrow better for their children. It is up to us to work hard to ensure that our grandchildren will have a free and prosperous country to grow up in. We must take it upon ourselves to teach them the virtues of Free Enterprise and Capitalism and that entitlement handouts only serve to enslave them. We must endow them with the knowledge of the inseparable link between our love for God and the desire to live a good and faithful life that includes abiding by the laws and caring for our fellow man through charitable works and through our churches. These are things that used to be ingrained in us by our families, churches, and schools, unfortunately for many that no longer holds true. We must nourish the love of God and country in our youth so that when it is time for them to take the reins, they will be ready to drive our country in the right direction for their children and grandchildren.

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