Hi everyone - I'm sorry I haven't posted lately. We've been so busy. We went to Boise for Easter - great time. We got home from there and then went to Lloyd Friede's funeral in Chinook a couple days later. Gordon came and stayed with us. After he went home our friends from camping from Minnesota and Eureka, Mt came and spent a couple nights. After they left, we started our painting job. We're painting the living room, dining room, and hopefully the kitchen. It started snowing the day after Ron and co. left and has still been snowing! We have 19 inches of snow as of 5:00 P.M. tonight. Everything is buried in snow. It is beautiful, and the moisture will be great for the summer months. I hope it stops soon. One good thing about it, though is that we didn't feel like going out in it, and the golf course was closed, so it was easy to resolve ourselves to staying home and painting! Maybe we'll be able to finish it soon. I will resume publishing posts on here soon. If anyone wants to publish a post or two here with some good teachings, or stories of your faith and answered prayer in your life, please feel free to do so.
In the meantime, I have been praying and jotting things down and I will share with you here when I can. Just know everyone is in my prayers.
I found this in my bible one of the days I was praying, jotted down on a scrap of paper. Something I heard on the 700 club once. I thought it was really good, so I'll post it today:
James Madison, the primary author of the constitution of the United States said this: "We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government - far from it! We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the principles of the ten commandments."
This, to me, is an amazing statement. All of our laws are 10 commandment based - or at least were in the past! I do pray we don't stray from the thoughts and purposes of the founders of our great country! Another important part of this to not forget is that each of ourselves has the right to govern ourselves . . . Not under the power of the government, but the principles of the ten commandments. God bless America!
Any thoughts on this out there?
4 comments:
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
- Tacitus, Roman Senator & Historian; AD C.56 - C.115
I agree with Mr. Madison and with Tacitus. God gave us the ten commandments for our own protection and enjoyment of the life he gave us. How many people today know all ten commandments? We have laws that we never even heard of on the books now because we have forgotten how to self-govern - we have trained our conscience out of ourselves as a society and therefore try to dictate how to behave through laws. We need only go back to the Ten Laws that Moses brought down from the mountain. I don't see that ever happening; do you?
Mom, thank you for this. I agree with it 100%. Thank you for reminding me! I know I need to study them. I will post them for all of us.
I wish and pray that we can get back to where our founding Fathers meant for us to be! But, I think it will take lots and lots and lots of prayer and people LIVING the word of God.
There ARE consequences for our actions. And, God Himself set out the guidelines that can make our lives go the way they should go.
It is wonderful to know that our God is a merciful God, and that He does forgive, when we confront our wrongdoing and confess it to Him. And are truly repentant. He is an awesome God!
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