Today we’ll change up just a little and talk about the fate of our Country some, and touch on our religious beliefs as well.

For all that didn’t know Deb, you missed out. She truly was a good Christian woman. She believed in God, she loved God, and she’d profess her faith in God to all that inquired, “How can you stay so happy and upbeat dealing with your cancer?”

Her answer was always the same. She’d point skyward with that little finger of hers and state, “HE…shows me the way.”

And he did. Of this I have no doubt. Deb used to tell me, “He talks to me.”

In the beginning I’d have reservations of this ACTUALLY taking place. I’d think, “Well, maybe she dreamed that he spoke with her.” As time passed, I became convinced that Deb did in fact hold conversations with our Lord.

After living with Deb our last 14 and a half months together it was so apparent to me, and anyone else that had contact with her, we just knew this woman was indeed living, and having, a very, very special relationship with God. He smiled on her daily.

Before carrying on with this post this morning I’d like you to stop for just a moment and ponder, “Is God living in my life?” If so, you know what I’m talking about. If not, I only wish you would take just a moment and ask God to come into your own life. He’s there for us, we only have to ask him in.

In my own regard, I personally struggle every day in my attempt to live a better, more fulfilling life as a Christian. It ain’t easy, and I come up short far too many times for even my own liking, but fortunately for us all…we have a forgiving God. He loves us each and every one!

Now, in regards to our Country today, we know as Christians, things aren’t looking too promising, are they?

We see our Christian beliefs, our beliefs in our family units, are belief in a good, solid work ethic, our beliefs in helping each other instead of our government getting their hand into this, our beliefs in raising our OWN children, all being taken from us through what they call “political correctness,” or their not wanting to offend others.

Offending others? What about offending US? Which by the way,we happen to be the majority in our Country. Two words stand out to me in that last sentence…OUR Country!

We’ve let our own government, ELECTED officials mind you, to take away, or at the very least water down or dilute the very principles our great Nation was founded upon. In many cases adhering to, or what I call, “kissin butt,” to put it mildly, people in our Country that have NO right to be here in the first place.

Why? Well maybe because they’re here…ILLEGALLY!

They give them shelter in OUR Country, they feed, clothe, educate, and GIVE medical treatment to them.

What’s up with this Obama care debacle…I mean those people are getting it FREE anyway, right? Our health care on the flip side was costing us $1,900 and some change per month. Since Deb’s passing, it’s only a mere…$1,200 a month, yet, most if not ALL, illegals get it free.

This on top of ALL the others that ARE citizens but have not worked a lick for generations now! Why?? Why good gracious folks, that’s simple enough to answer, it’s because they’re…ENTITLED!
ENTITLED??? ENTITLED to WHAT?? OUR hard-earned money?? Gimmee a break here people!

You know what I’m entitled to? Let’s start with an EMPTY belly at night if I don’t work! I’m ENTITLED to live in a tent somewhere if I don’t make my house payment. I’m ENTITLED to no electricity if I don’t pay my power bill.

I’m ENTITLED to no cell phone, no TV, no hospital care, and in many cases today no job…if I don’t take a DRUG TEST! That’s the ENTITILEMENT program I’m on.
Oh, one more thought on this.

I went to renew my Florida driver’s license a couple weeks back. I tried to renew online, but since Deb had renewed our license that way last time, I had to go to renew at the license office.

I had to produce my birth certificate. I was like, “C’mon guys, I have two picture ID’s, my tax returns, my proof of residence, AND I have had a Florida driver’s license for…40 YEARS! 40 years!!

They go, “Nope…you have to produce a birth certificate.”

Well, I explained that Deb had passed away, and I know we have a copy of my birth certificate, and I’ve looked, but haven’t found where she’d put it as yet. Again, here’s ALL my other information.

Long story short, I have to send off for another copy of my birth certificate?? A taxpaying citizen of the US, born and raised here in Florida, holding IN MY HAND my old Florida license with MY photo on it along with other ID, yet…I can’t get a license without a birth certificate??

Kind of ironic isn’t it? I can’t renew my Florida driver’s license, which I’ve had for 40 years, without a VALID birth certificate, yet I could be President of the United States of America…and not have one! Well, I couldn’t obviously, but there are some that can. Go figure that one out??

Honestly, why aren’t WE entitled just the same as these other people? In reality, if our elected leaders are givin OUR, once more, OUR money away so freely to illegals AND people who won’t work, no, no, I didn’t say didn’t want to work but can’t find a job, I SAID, WON’T work!

Then why aren’t we getting an equal cut ourselves. Once more, it is OUR money!

Big difference here, so don’t let the liberally twisted, I mean minded, continue to feed you that crap. Let me make this quite clear…WE ARE FUNDING, through a political agenda that we’re not even part of the equation in, OUR OWN DEMISE! Yep, our politicians are using, well, a better description is, TAKING OUR money…and destroying us in the process.

They don’t give one hoot in hell for us, or the “poor oppressed people” they claim to be fighting so hard for! IT is about only ONE thing…THEMSELVES! Their power, their greed, their friends and cohorts, and their staying in office.

Anyway, my point to this today is that unless we stand up and start being JUST as vocal, and JUST as goal-oriented as our liberal counterparts in regards to our own beliefs, we are in fact going to lose our Country, our rights as citizens, and our religious freedoms.

With that being said, let me share with you guys a prayer I received last night from a dear friend of ours. She too is a fine Christian lady and I think the world of her.

I had seen this prayer before, and many of you may have already read it as well. But last night I had the time to stop, read this, and let it sink in as to what the prayer was about, and just how appropriate it is in regards to our Country today.

I also had time to send over to this friend a return e-mail with a description of a “platonic relationship.” This being and inside joke between the two of us, and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to “gig her” one more time this morning on this topic! LOL!

Too many times we are so busy and tied up with other events taking place that we only “skim over” things sometimes, and I am guilty of this far too much myself.

It is supposedly written by Rev. Billy Graham, but in today’s world far too much you read on the internet is not always what they seem, or were actually written by whom others claim did write it.

With that being said, I did not “Snopes” this for actuality, but to be honest, I’ve gotten to the point I don’t ALWAYS believe everything “Snopes” claims is fact or fiction either.

Nevertheless, I would truly like to believe this is in fact a prayer by Rev. Graham, and if someone can verify this to be factual, I’d appreciate it. Even if it was not written by Rev. Graham, in my own belief, this prayer is so “right-on” in its meaning and so descriptive of the happenings in our Country, I could not fathom not sharing it with you all today.

If you have read it previously, please, re-read it, and then share it with others.

Please, don’t skim over this as I did the first time this was sent to me. Take the few minutes to sink in and contemplate its message. I was very glad it had been sent to me once again…

“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.

Amen”

Thank you all for stopping back by to visit with us again. Please take care, God Bless, and for heaven’s sake…keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart.

Dub and Deb

Well, today I’m gonna give you a couple of my thoughts on actions taking place in our Country.

The first being the actions implemented from the “pro-gay” activists in regard to Chick-fil-A and the comments made by its president, Dan Cathy.

First off, Chick-fil-A has given its employees Sunday off, I believe since its founding. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve always found this to be first class.

On top of this, it seems to me that by their doing so, it is pretty clear they’re run by an officer, or officers, with a strong conviction, and this is where the trouble starts in… “today’s world.”

It has to do with a topic, or belief, that IS NOT condoned by far too many in our Country today. Not condoned by many, although I’d like to state most, but really I can’t from lack of true knowledge, of our politicians, our media, our educators, and far too many of our fellow citizens.

In regards to our fellow citizens, I use that term VERY loosely because what our elected leaders, their cohorts, and our media today call our “fellow citizens,” are literally not citizens at all, but here illegally.

With this being said, in my own opinion, I consider them exactly what they are…illegal, and with absolutely NO rights to involve themselves in the agendas in our Country, BUT, that’s another topic completely.

Today’s topic concerns…our belief in God.

Mr. Cathy made a statement, and by now I’m sure you’re all aware of it, that he supports the biblical definition of the family unit, and that supporters of gay marriage were arrogant.

My question is simply this…what in the heck is wrong IN his statement? I feel exactly the very same way as he in regards to the issue with gay marriage.

Again, with Chic-fil-A giving their employees Sunday off, the Bible’s “day of rest,” I for one understand completely that this company must be run by individuals with a strong religious conviction. I mean, how long have they been in existence?

BUT, by all the “powers that be” in our Country, or at least the ones who condone the idea of “political correctness,” Mr. Cathy really has NO right to voice such blatantly biased feelings, Biblically correct, which they are, or not.

To the “progressive mindset” Mr. Cathy is simply…a “Bible thumping” religious zealot, who is totally NOT in tune with “today’s America,” which is based on… “hope and change.”

Personally I don’t see ANY hope for our Country if this political communist agenda, oops…I mean PROGRESSIVE agenda continues. It HAS to be stopped. THAT is the CHANGE that is needed.

The progressive movement literally is doing exactly what Mr. Cathy states. This being the destruction of…the family unit. This is as obvious as the nose on your face, IF, you’d only open your eyes to see.

It is about the destruction of your church, the destruction of your right to free speech, the destruction of your work ethic, the destruction of your ability to own and run your own business, the destruction of having the ability to even…find a job.

The people in power today don’t care about their so-called constituents in the least, but only…about themselves. Their power, their greed, and they have no morals or values in how this is achieved.

You only have to look at the “inner city” black society, and today it’s pretty much across the board with any ethnic group, to see AND understand their political motivation…TOTAL DEPENDENCY of their constituents to the powers that be!

Do you REALLY think today’s power structure REALLY gives one hoot in hell about… “the gays?” Of course they don’t. No more so than they REALLY cared about the inner city black communities.

Through this so-called “great society” our politicians created so many years ago, we’ve become a society of…entitled, non-producing citizens that have lost all sense of pride in themselves, and actually their freedom (they sold their freedom for a little monthly handout and became DEPENDANT on the very people that claim “to help” them).

Out of “slavery,” and into…slavery or dependency on our government.

How has this great society worked out in the inner city black community? One only has to look to see that in reality, NOTHING has changed. Billions, and probably trillions have been spent to create this, this “socialist utopia,” and as of yet…no change.

The ghettos are still there (many of these dilapidated buildings are owned by the same elected official that proclaims…we’re here to HELP you, and by the way, most of their “rent checks” come from you and I), unemployment has, and always will be off the charts to these communities.

Lack of an education is rampant, family units are not a priority to many, children born out of wedlock are not only acceptable but actually advocated, incarceration of these people is much higher than any other area in our Country, and most of the crimes committed are…black on black.

Yes sir, this great society has been nothing but a waste of our tax dollars, at least in the sense of getting anything worthwhile out of it from the community standards anyway.

Shouldn’t we be teaching them to work, and through their work ethic to grow and prosper and become self-reliant and productive members of society? You’d think, wouldn’t you? Yet this theory wouldn’t work, at least not for the people in power.

Look only at the Cloward-Piven Strategy, you don’t want to get people OFF welfare, you want to get MORE people ON welfare. That’s how you bring America to her knees…economic meltdown.

Oh, but the ones in power claiming to be for the poor, our elected officials, have benefitted from these programs lavishly. Through their buying of votes, they have created for themselves a position of power and greed today that allows them through their passage “of laws,” to become almost…untouchable.

So no, they don’t care about the gays any more so than they do about me or you, the illegals, the black inner city, the atheists, the church, or anyone involved in being…a producer. They care only about themselves.

We’re under persecution today my friends. Religious persecution being only one of our many problems, but it is only going to get worse, unless “WE THE PEOPLE” finally get enough of such acts being implicated by our government officials and say, “NO more.”

Mr. Cathy took a stand. He decided that his own moral and religious beliefs are more important than caving into the political correctness being implemented on us today. He puts God above the “Godless.”

By doing so, we the people got behind him and our own religious beliefs, and Chick-fil-A set a record for company sales, although the intent from the gay point of view, the media and many of our so-called elected officials was to boycott and hurt Mr. Cathy’s company.

Look at the mayors of Boston and Chicago…they state they won’t permit a Chick-fil-A restaurant in their cities because of Mr. Cathy’s stand. I personally find this so anti-American I actually don’t know why these guys aren’t run out of office by their own constituents??

Let me state this too though before I close out for today. Honestly, I don’t care about what a person does being the closed doors of their own home. Unless it involves children, I couldn’t care less as to a person’s sexual interests. That’s THEIR business, not mine.

I do not condone sex between people of the same gender, our marriage specifically, but again, that’s just me. I don’t want it in front of my children, my grandchildren, or your kids or grandkids as well. Do what you want in the privacy of your own home though, THAT is your right.

Mr. Cathy states that supporters of gay marriage are arrogant.

I agree with this as well. How many times have you seen gay supporters burst into churches during service and start running around, throwing flyers about the place, then run off?

To me, that’s arrogance.

How many times have the states voted down gay marriage? Then a city or judge overturn what the people voted down, and okay a gay marriage union?

To me, that’s arrogance.

Then to single out businesses or individuals, and blackball them into forcing them to come out and make pro-gay statements or be boycotted is lawlessness in my opinion. The perpetrators ought to go to jail.

Once more, to me, this is arrogance.

For our powers that be declaring that Merry Christmas shouldn’t be used on account of it offending people, this is an attack on our Christian beliefs.

How many manger scenes are no longer allowed on city properties, the Ten Commandments, and the like? In God We Trust under attack daily?

This is religious persecution, and it’ll continue to get worse and worse if we allow it. Communism does not advocate religious freedom. It does though advocate the use of fringe groups such as the gays, the “oppressed” and so forth to obtain their goals.

Many of today’s “progressives” are Saul Alinsky disciples, President Obama and former First Lady Hillary Clinton are but two.

A Saul Alinsky quote that I find interesting in regards to today and our religious freedoms being infringed on is this… “Lest we forget an over the shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history…the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom…Lucifer.”

It was Alinsky and his teachings that forecast to the Bill Ayers and cohorts in the sixties that violence could not overcome America. Forget it, but go back to school, get an education, and put on a suit. Become the establishment in other words. Infiltrate from within.

Become members of the church, become educators, become lawyers, enter politics. Become part of… “the power.” I must admit they learned very well, because today many are… “the power.”

I’m not preaching to anyone today, because I for one was not brought up in a family that attended church on a regular basis. YET, we believed in and adhered to our Christian beliefs.

We believed in the church, a work ethic, the words respect, discipline, God, faith and law were all condoned. We believed in the family unit. We helped our neighbor, and our word was indeed our bond.

All these virtues are not looked upon by our politico’s with respect today, in reality they frown upon them. It defeats their goal of total control.

In closing I’ll only say this.

The Lord our God is all powerful. He is a God of love, but also a God to be feared. Not from a frighten you standpoint in my opinion, but simply this…I do not want to stand before him on my own day of judgment and hear the words… “I do not know you.”

Stand up for your religious beliefs, as did Mr. Cathy. Don’t let these political correctness advocates bully you into compromising your own morals and convictions. If God is on your side, you can’t lose.
Start taking your children and grandchildren to church.

Through this, down the road they’ll be able to make their own decisions in regards to their religion, BUT, by getting them involved in the church now, the decision they’ll make down the road will be an educated one. One learned from experience, not just a liberal educator, or our media proclaiming that our religion is but a farce.

While Devin was down with me this summer, we went to church together. Willie attended with us too, the Sunday he was here. It sure can’t hurt, but the upside is everlasting life.

Deb changed my outlook so much in regards to attending church. Her belief was rock solid and she told me on numerous occasions that God was who showed her the route she chose in her battle with cancer.

She was always upbeat, she never complained and she tried to help or console anyone who needed it. She was an inspiration to all that knew her. I know in my heart as well…God smiled on her during her time here.

I also know that without a doubt…she is with our God today.

It has become unfathomable to me after living with, and beside such a person as Deb, and seeing her own faith in such a difficult time in regards to her own life and wellbeing that truly, truly there is a God, and there is a heaven.

I too want to go there when my time has come, and be a part of this wondrous place.

Put your faith in God my friends, he’s there for us all. With that being said, let’s not continue to let political correctness, political agendas, and most of all, man himself attempt to persuade us, or our families that there is another way.

Let’s instead become more like the Mr. Cathy’s of the world…stand up for what WE believe in, not what we’re told to believe.

God Bless you all, and be sure to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart. Deb would want it no other way!

Dub and Deb