Well, I was going to put together a week in review post like I always do, but I just couldn\u2019t get it together. The first reason is I simply ran out of time. The second reason is that the decision on June 28 loomed so large everything else seemed to pale by comparison. So I want to just share a few thoughts that I have had as I try to grasp the significance of this and what it means to me as an American and a Christian. Well, I was going to put together a week in review post like I always do, but I just couldn\u2019t get it together. The first reason is I simply ran out of time. The second reason is that the decision on June 28 loomed so large everything else seemed to pale by comparison. So I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u201cI dreamed I was flying\/And high up above my eyes could clearly see\/The statue of liberty\/Sailing away to sea\u2026\u201d That pretty much sums up my feelings about America right now. When we teach our kids civics, we won\u2019t be able to tell them we live in a republic anymore. That\u2019s staggering, and sobering. I realize there are a lot of Republicans\/mainstream conservatives trying to pretend the ruling on June 28 really wasn\u2019t so bad as all that, or maybe it was bad but it wasn\u2019t John Roberts\u2019 fault, and anyway this\u2019ll add fuel to Romney\u2019s fire\u2026 to all that I say rubbish. What\u2019s being lost sight of here is that not only was the outcome unremittingly disastrous, doing away with the entire notion of enumerated powers in this nation, but the entire procedure was contemptibly unprincipled and dishonorable. There\u2019s no excuse for what Roberts did, and I can only conclude that he made his last-minute switch out of a desire for approval from the left. While Kennedy, Kennedy of all people, who basically defines \u201cunprincipled,\u201d actually sided with the dissent! It boggles the mind.
\nThat is my reaction as somebody who loves what America should be and was created to be, but who can no longer love what America is. It is my reaction as a citizen of this country and this world. And I believe it is a righteous reaction and a justified reaction. At the same time, I believe that I am not JUST a citizen of this country, or this world. At the same time, I understand WHY I am groaning for that patriot dream, that city undimmed by human tears. It is because one day that dream will become a reality, and one day God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes. There will be a new heaven, and a new earth. And like the children at the end of The Last Battle<\/em>, as they realize that they have finally found the true Narnia, the real Narnia, we will some day find the true America.
\nBut it will be after. After the fall. After the wreckage. After the burning. And then\u2026 then\u2026 the rebirth. And all shall be well. All manner of thing shall be well.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"