Ben Stein on Gratitude
Ben Stein has an excellent piece in The American Spectator. It dawned on him while he and a friend were shopping in Beverly Hills just how richly and unbelievably blessed we are in this country:
While I couldn't agree more with Ben Stein, and I give him the benefit of the doubt for not stating the obvious, but we would be remiss if we didn't give God more than just a little credit for our incredible blessings. The inclusion of God in America's day to day conduct is directly proportional to our wellbeing. Unfortunately, the inverse of that is also true. If we as a country decide to exclude and/or forsake Him by insisting on secularizing everything and kick Him out of schools, courthouses, parks, and more importantly, our hearts and minds, eventually, there will be hell to pay. God has shed His grace on America. We couldn't have become this great nation with out Him.
"America, America, God shed His grace on thee." And then I thought of something else. None of this, absolutely none of it, would be there without the men and women of our armed forces. Every bit of what we have by virtue of being a free and prosperous nation, every ability to buy whatever book we want at Dutton's, every ability we have to come here from foreign lands and escape oppression, every speck of a chance we have to make it and become prosperous enough to have foot massages -- all of this is behind the shield of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, National Guard and Reserves. Every speck of everything good we have by having full pantries and full stomachs is because someone fought and died for us at Bastogne or Tarawa. Every Jewish person like me or that woman getting her feet massaged owes our bare survival to the men and women who fought and won World War II. Hollywood didn't do it. The NBA didn't do it. Martha Stewart didn't do it. Donald Trump didn't do it. The U.S. Congress didn't do it. Men and women from places like Prescott, Arkansas, and Bedford, Virginia, men who we never heard of–they are the ones who did it.
While I couldn't agree more with Ben Stein, and I give him the benefit of the doubt for not stating the obvious, but we would be remiss if we didn't give God more than just a little credit for our incredible blessings. The inclusion of God in America's day to day conduct is directly proportional to our wellbeing. Unfortunately, the inverse of that is also true. If we as a country decide to exclude and/or forsake Him by insisting on secularizing everything and kick Him out of schools, courthouses, parks, and more importantly, our hearts and minds, eventually, there will be hell to pay. God has shed His grace on America. We couldn't have become this great nation with out Him.
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