THANK GOD FOR AMERICA

Some exerpts from a couple of posts at American Thinker, well worth reading in their entirities:

As we allow our Country to be downgraded like some worthless stock in meltdown mode, it might behoove us to just take a few moments glancing back at what we will be leaving behind. No Nation has ever been perfect; none ever will be. But destroying the best one to date without a tested plan for a replacement is nothing more than the work of fools. (read it all here)

and

Our hypnotic fixation on changing our world to make it Heaven is bound to lead not to the feeding of our real needs but rather to temporary fix of a heroin addict. That is why despots, even despots with some good intentions initially, degrade so quickly into monstrosities: self-made gods. Every monster of the last century which gave birth to an ugly new state -- Mussolini, Lenin, Mao, Hitler, Castro -- promised above all action, change, progress. As we watch Obama seek to change America, we would do well to remember that change, like mutation, is most often hideous and harmful. Life is imperfection -- natural and normal. Our desperate campaign to make life perfect makes life ghastly.

What we need instead of change is gratitude. The simple blessing of being born in America is something that most people on this planet would give much to possess. The ordinary freedom which was the object of the Pilgrims is something purchased by those before us at great cost and which is frittered away by us with gaping indifference. The specialness of our very souls, made in the image of a loving God, transcends all the trite amusements we make.

We owe thanks to those who gave (and who are giving) their lives so that we may be free. We owe thanks to those before us who cared more for goodness than for goods. We owe thanks, always, for a Blessed Creator who blesses us still. There is no virtue in progressing from freedom or benefit in changing our moral principles. Change and progress are callous, soulless, indifferent processes. Let us instead embrace what is pure, noble, and timeless. Let us give thanks for what lasts. (read it all here)