The roller coaster continues.  I was disappointed yesterday to see Governor Rick Perry leave the 2012 presidential race.  In my mind, he was the best candidate we had running, and the only one that gave me any hope of a smaller, more constitutional, less-intrusive  federal government.  Alas, my vision was not to be.  My choices narrow.  I’m not decided on where to go from here in terms of the candidates - but no matter what, my choice will still be from my (limited) perspective, and is not (necessarily) the will of God.  Thank God that he hears our prayers (I have plenty of evidence), and thank God that he does not always do what we ask of him.  He is the only one that sees the big picture.

This reminds me of a day one of my employees asked me a question about why a decision had been made by higher-level management, a decision that made no sense to him.  I explained the whole thing from my (still limited, but bigger than his) viewpoint.  He listened quietly and intently, then concluded something to the effect of, “I am SO grateful that I don’t have to look at things from all of those perspectives!!!”

In any case, we know for sure that God moves the pieces to make the most glorious outcome possible, that he loves us, and that we can choose to trust Him and share eternal life with Him.

The rest we don’t know.  Does he have a solution that will be better at getting us less intrusive government sooner?  Maybe.  Does he need to humble us some more?  Send us all the way into slavery so that we will return to Him?   Ick, I personally don’t want doors two or three.

Thank God that he sees and knows all, and is loving, faithful, and just.  The same God who can raise the dead and defeat Satan is totally capable of defeating the mainstream media and the Republican Establishment.  There was never a RINO that God couldn’t outwit or outrun.

I don’t know the outcome, but I will let God be God, and I will trust Him.

I thought about Americans and what each one might need

I Pray each has presents and gifts beneath their trees

So, what one thing could I give that would last the test of time

A gift that would last forever defying all evil and crime

So here is a Christmas Prayer for you, to those I hold so dear

May the Christmas spirit be every day – not just once a year

May God be with you always – during your time upon this earth

Our salvation signed and sealed at the time of the “Christ Child’s “ birth

A hug, a kiss or compliment for those you love – is forever a blessing earned

For those who travel the airways and highways, in fact may ner return

Don’t let the sun set upon angry words, power struggles or idle threats

For those words you say today – may tomorrow be your worst regrets

May God bless you with wisdom and grace to face each and every day

May he protect you from evil and temptation – strength to resist what people say

When you have a moment – count your many blessings one by one

And give thanks to God in the Highest for his only begotten son

To All Americans
As Always,
Little Tboca

Much has been made of Christine O’Donnell’s question on the First Amendment. Many others have well made the point that the First Amendment does not contain the words, “separation of church and state”. Just to make the point, the text is (in part):

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

These words prohibit the Federal government from establishing a religion, and deny the Federal government the power to prohibit religious practices.

The Constitution specifically acknowledges the existence of God, in fact Jesus Christ.

Fairly well known to the American public is the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Less well known, in fact all but unknown, is the postamble:

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.

Thus, when the states ratified the Constitution, they were affirming and acknowledging within the Constitution the existence of God and specifically Jesus Christ. This acknowledgement is also given in many of the states’ ratification messages.

Ratification of the Constitution included the following words:

Delaware: “…on the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven…”

Pennsylvania: “…the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven…”

New Jersey: “…this 18th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1787…”

Georgia: “…the 2d day of January, in the year of our Lord 1788…”

Connecticut: “…this 9th day of January, A. D. 1788.”

Massachusetts: “…this 7th day of February, Anno Domini 1788…”

South Carolina: “…the 23d day of May, Anno Domini 1788…”

New Hampshire: “…acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence…”

New York: “…the 26th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1788.”

Rhode Island: “…the twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety…”