Our nation seems a dream of that which I remember growing up. Nothing was perfect to be sure. But that is as we know, an unrealistic expectation. I would ask though, where have our parent’s dreams gone? How did we get here from there? Why is it we will, for the first time, leave a nation far worse off than we received it for our children? I suppose that debate is contained in much of what I’ve written about these past years, and frankly in as much as I will write in the future, God willing. However, today I saw a bumper sticker that kind of summed it all up for me.

The bitten “Jesus Fish” was obviously displayed by someone whose vanity and ignorance had overwhelmed their common sense and reason to a point where they just had to be up in everyone’s face about it. I knew instantly it was a younger person, likely having received their education from a corrupt and misguided system bent on marginalizing faith while simultaneously validating this/their life void of accountability. It’s actually pretty easy to spot this growing demographic in the age of Obama.

Sadly, the bumper sticker also made me think about Thanksgiving, and what it meant long ago compared to what it means today, especially for our young people. You see I find myself more and more pessimistic about our future as a nation, wondering if the next generation will ever understand the very real foundations of a country conceived in the goodness and tenets of Christianity. Moreover, will they ever truly understand that mankind is his own worst enemy when it comes to ignoring or even re-writing history, faith-based or otherwise, so it may accommodate whatever choices are made for that moment in time? No, I’m sorry my fellow Americans, that simply never works… It never has.

For my part, I’m thankful for prayers answered and for my family. I’m thankful for the military that keeps me safe, and for my faith and all that it calms in me. And I’m thankful for a Savior who paid it forward so I might be humbled in falling, but get back up to know He’s still there. Maybe we all need a bit more of that humility and a little less vanity.

Oh, and to the selfish little jackass sporting that bumper sticker this morning, may you learn a little of that humility yourself. And hopefully before you reach a point in your life when crying out to “Darwin” ain’t gonna count for squat… Dumb ass…

Sorry, but the “Trump” in me is showing through a little this Thanksgiving…

God bless and be safe!