A Few Provoking Thoughts...Some Classic Quotes.

I came across this blog today, I thought it to be very sobering, especially considering the generations to come. This soldier goes to Sovereign Grace Church in Apex, NC. As I was reading his blog, I was inspired by his Biblical view regarding serving the Lord and his country. I am often far too complacent in my thoughts and prayers when it comes to thinking about the history of our country and it's soldiers. I am not one to quickly air political views (this is a family blog-I know), but I do also believe that as a Nation and even as Christians we fall under this as well...we can be much too comfortable, much too complacent when it comes to fighting for our freedoms. These quotes were good reminders...apart from God's grace, and willingness to fight, we wouldn't have the freedoms we have today, or hope to have in the future.

For those who may be interested in reading his blog click here.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.- C S Lewis

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)