Thank You Easter Bunny and Santa

As I grow in Christ I become more frustrated at how commercialism takes away from our holidays that celebrate the core foundation of our faith. Christmas is about God humbling himself and becoming a child. God in flesh dwelling among us. Easter is even better! God made away through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that we could be reconciled back to him and have a personal relationship with our creator for eternity.

But this week as I looked around at all the Easter advertisements for candy, clothes and bunny appearances I had to be thankful. In our country it is becoming more difficult to keep God in our lives as many are trying to remove God from every aspect of our lives. School, government, public areas and more. But think about this. Interestingly enough the greed and love of money in this country is preserving our holidays. What do you think would happen if an effort was made to totally ban Easter and Christmas? Every retailer in the country would go ballistic.

Now, they will and are trying to remove God from those holidays but the fact remains that the holidays will continue to be a part of our culture and that's a good thing.

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Aaaaahhhhhh....

In the animated movie Madagascar 2 Alex the Lion and his friends are in Africa on an animal reserve where Alex was born. During the movie a crisis arises as the main watering hole providing life for the animals begins to dry up and threaten the lives of the entire preserve. The climax of the movie occurs when the water comes rushing back as a result of the heroic act of Alex.That scene, although animated, brings about several emotions in one. Joy, elation, peace that everything is going to be fine and a sense of, well, aaaahhhhhh!

This is precisely the feeling I have just experienced myself. In my case I have returned to the watering hole and found the aaaahhhh factor. That feeling of being really thirsty on a hot day, drinking a glass of ice tea (sweet of course, I'm southern) and having an instant feeling of refreshment.

Now more than ever before in my life, I have realized that the choice of where to attend church is one of the most important decisions to be made. Returning to my church roots that I should have never left in the first place, was complete affirmation of what was missing in the life of my family. DISCIPLESHIP. Practical but Godly instruction for how to live my life where there was interaction and a hunger to do things Gods way so that the world can be changed one person at a time.

It's bitter sweet though. I don't want to leave behind friends that we have made in the past five years and know that some of them may not understand. I would never want to pull people away from the church but I long so much for everyone to know how incredible it feels to be in a healthy, scripture rich environment. I can't be accused of being impatient in this regard. I have agonized about this decision for over a year an it is obvious where we need to be. I am excited for the future in what God will do in the life of my family and how we can continue to serve our great Savior!!!

Uncle Sam wants you to foot the bill-cause he's broke.

This country was founded to escape big government and yet we have the biggest government ever. I read about so many people who want to blame Bush, Obama, or Clinton. Or say it's congress' fault. It's black verses white, republican verses democrat. The bottom line is it's all politicians fault and when you get down to it, the blame lies with the people. We put the idiots in office that have run our country into financial ruin.

We blame the government for horrible money management but that is the kettle and pot game if there ever was one. Our country is full of people who can't control their spending habits and we want to blame the government for doing the same. Technically we are the government. We have forgotten that. We want government to change their ways but we are not willing to do the same in our own personal lives. No one takes responsibility for their actions. "I can't pay my mortgage." Then perhaps you should not have purchased that nice a house! I'm just saying what Dave Ramsey, Peter Schiff, and others are saying. Not everyone deserves to live in a house. I'm not for classes but some people work harder than others, some save better than others and diligence is rewarded.

Unfortunately we will have to pay the price for other peoples mistakes. Including the Government. That is unless you want to move to another country. Although preceding government administrations got us in the hole I can guarantee you this: HOPE and CHANGE does NOT come by increasing the national debt by 2.9trillion and raising taxes 1.1 Trillion. I don't care who is in office or who put them there, that is criminal. How do you expect to get more money from people who don't have it? The IRS is going to be busier than ever tracking down all the people who are not paying taxes because they needed to eat instead.

My question is, what are we going to do about it? Scott Brown is proof that we can have a say. Washington is proof we haven't said enough.