I haven't blogged in so long. Trying to work out life's challenges and still have moments of freedom. My aunt once told me, once you have children there is no "me time". You have commited to raising them and your time will come later. And as a Christian, I feel it my responsbility to tend to my parents. It's a commandment, not a recommendation. So I keep very busy but once I started giving up the things that I thought I had to do to the things that just need to get done, life got better.
I received this email. It's a prayer from Bill Graham. It's so relevant for our society. We need Jesus. We need love. We need less selfishness. We need kindness. We need to get a grip on reality (not reality tv) and realize our purpose.
Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics... We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'

