The Power to Create a World
Jay is a bit discouraged:
I’ve never been more bleak about the future of this country. The road to serfdom isn’t obvious. Nobody intentionally elects a dictator for the purpose of electing a dictator. Instead they pour the ill-conceived hopes and dreams into a Leader who promises them the world so long as they give him the power to create it.
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I wish this were merely sour political grapes. But the future of this country truly is in deep peril. The way to the future is through individualism, hard work, limited government, thrift, ingenuity, and political pluralism. Today, we have a President who wants a cradle-to-the-grave welfare state and has the audacity to not only hope for one, but to say it in no uncertain terms.
I confess that I, too, can become discouraged when I look at everything which is happening. Nonetheless, there is hope. Some of that hope can be found in the writings of David barJesse:
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Now, it is entirely probable that you will not write poetry to commemorate this dark time in our country’s history. But now is an excellent time to remember that we are hardly the first to go through what seems to be catastrophic change. Just remember that putting all our hope in people (of whatever political stripe) invariably leads to failure.
After all, who really has the power to create a world?
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3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Bob Ellis
26 February 2009, 21:21, UTC
Some days, things seems so hopeless for the future of the country I love so much, it would be hard to keep a positive outlook…if I didn’t know the One who made the heavens and the earth.
Thanks for a good reminder!
Michael Woodring
27 February 2009, 8:43, UTC
Bob,
Thanks for reading.
Chet
27 February 2009, 13:20, UTC
When the guy who predicted the colossal failure of the Apple iPod tells me that the country is screwed and times are going to be bad, things are looking up. Jay Reding is the perfect anti-prophet.
I wish this were merely sour political grapes
Well, Jay, then your wish is granted! Anybody who can contrast this post with the fawning, drooling sycophancy with which you covered the past 8 years of the Bush administration can see that, yes, this is sour grapes. Obama’s done absolutely nothing that you didn’t support when a president named “Bush” did it.