Happy fourth of July

I hope everyone had a great holiday.  I love the fourth of July.  I love this country.  If you know me personally you know that I am often very critical of our government.  I love the fact that I can be openly critical of our government because we live in the United States of America and descent is a form of patriotism.  I’ve spent today with my family doing stuff I love -eating, watching movies and the History Channel.  As I watched the story of of the American  Revolution on the History Channel I was reminded of the courage and faith of the people that founded this country.  You’ve probably read these before, but glance through them again to be reminded of our heritage.

- By John Adams - 2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God … What a Utopia, what a Paradise would this region be.”

- By Samuel Adams - Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Father of the American Revolution
“And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again; that wars may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Savour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the scepter of Him who is Prince of Peace.”