Who wouldn't want to return to some aspect of that?
Often secure and surrounded by those who love us ...this is the childhood story for many of us. But, as adults we are not to return to our childish ways ...but to recreate the healthy moments for our children.
I look at our nation the same way. I'd like to retain what is healthy ...and as often parents do, our forefathers set down how they thought we should live as a nation whether they were showing a stellar example or not by looking at their own personal lives. The things that were bad, were not because bad policy existed ...it's because they had bad practices that they'd not yet dealt with.
I don't want to return to the time of slavery, or even to when women couldn't vote ...and as I enjoy watching the movies, I see much character that emerged from the frontier days; but I would not want to live through the struggles that they did. Yet still, I see how it made our nation great.
Yet, let us not forget that there are those who still do struggle ...and those who don't just fight their own battles or their own private torment. Many brave and courageous soldiers still fight wars to defend the freedoms that all of us benefit from while living in this nation.
The problem with freedoms, often coinciding with increased free time ...is that we become complacent, forgetting how fragile those freedoms really are. We are not only uninvolved, but uninformed. We take things for granted, and no longer want to be bothered. And we tend to repeat our mistakes unnecessarily.
Sometimes we forget what we've learned ...and I guess, I have to admit that we sometimes do not learn it. Why else would we repeat it?
Partly, I believe that we value the innocence so much ...that we want to go back to that. But, when we made many of our mistakes by those innocent acts ...it's not that we were irresponsible. We were in the painful process of maturing.
But,we should have learned something, and the wisdom that comes with that should be invaluable. It is guaranteed that times will always change ...though not always with a sound frame of mind. There are good changes, and there are bad changes. And we often fail to distinguish the two. The Bible says that people often become wise in their own conceits ...and that stands true today as it did then.
I look at our nation the same way. I'd like to retain what is healthy ...and as often parents do, our forefathers set down how they thought we should live as a nation whether they were showing a stellar example or not by looking at their own personal lives. The things that were bad, were not because bad policy existed ...it's because they had bad practices that they'd not yet dealt with.
I don't want to return to the time of slavery, or even to when women couldn't vote ...and as I enjoy watching the movies, I see much character that emerged from the frontier days; but I would not want to live through the struggles that they did. Yet still, I see how it made our nation great.
Yet, let us not forget that there are those who still do struggle ...and those who don't just fight their own battles or their own private torment. Many brave and courageous soldiers still fight wars to defend the freedoms that all of us benefit from while living in this nation.
The problem with freedoms, often coinciding with increased free time ...is that we become complacent, forgetting how fragile those freedoms really are. We are not only uninvolved, but uninformed. We take things for granted, and no longer want to be bothered. And we tend to repeat our mistakes unnecessarily.
Sometimes we forget what we've learned ...and I guess, I have to admit that we sometimes do not learn it. Why else would we repeat it?
Partly, I believe that we value the innocence so much ...that we want to go back to that. But, when we made many of our mistakes by those innocent acts ...it's not that we were irresponsible. We were in the painful process of maturing.
But,we should have learned something, and the wisdom that comes with that should be invaluable. It is guaranteed that times will always change ...though not always with a sound frame of mind. There are good changes, and there are bad changes. And we often fail to distinguish the two. The Bible says that people often become wise in their own conceits ...and that stands true today as it did then.
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