The nation known as the United States Of America has always been a mixing bowl - a potential recipient to a presented confluence of ideas and ideology. The sieve that was once used to filter out those potential ingredients that bore the possibility to pollute the recipe for the safe pursuit of life, liberty, justice and happiness at the forming of our nation was a set of principles agreed to by those present as the Constitution and Bill of Rights were formulated and finalized. Those principles were considered inviolate and critical to the survival of the new society over the long intentioned life of the nation and were necessary for the fruitful and peaceful lives of its citizenry. Those principles became the backbone of a nation - those principles, however many may argue, ... were biblical. The United States of America has never been perfect - but then no nation on earth, populated by the imperfections of imperfect men has ever been. It's intentions at its beginning though were
A much loved spiritual mentor pointed out to me the difference between the Apostle Paul's past will (a life without Christ) and His new will that evolved after the Lord called Him. He then challenged me to define what my own new will would say... ...let my response be found here...
"It is not the title that people give to themselves that defines who they are; it is the fruit of what they produce." Graham Cooke