I Love America!

I still believe in America.  No matter what the world may say, or the stock market may do.  I believe in America.  I believe in its people, its principles and, believe it or not, its politics.  

What that does not mean is that I agree with all its people, principles, and politics. I just believe in them.  I believe that we are still the greatest country on earth.  I believe strongly in what I read in our founding documents.  I believe that "all men are created equal."  I strongly agree with the words written on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

What makes America great?  It's people.  Huddled masses yearning to breathe free.  People that came from nothing to be a part of something greater than themselves.  Potato farmers and factory laborers, migrant workers and entrepreneurs; people of every race, religion, and social status coming together as one. Americans.  

I don't agree with them all, but I love them.  Every last one of them.  Red, black, white, yellow, rich, poor, gay, straight, drunks, murderers, evangelists, tall, short, skinny and fat.  I love angry Americans and happy Americans, yankees and rebels, democrats, republicans, libertarians, communists, socialists, anarchists, and pacifists.  

I love Catholics.  All of them.  I love Methodists, Presbyterians, Jews and Muslims.  I love hedonistic satan worshippers.  I love child molesters and rapists, pornographers and preachers.  I love every radical left wing liberal that ever loved to hate Rush Limbaugh.  I love Rush Limbaugh.  I love teachers and construction workers.  I love illegal immigrants and the people who hate them. 

 I love America.  The land of the free and the home of the brave.  I love America.  The good old U.S. of A.  MY home.  My HOME!  

I love America.  I love it when it makes me proud and I love it when it makes me sad.  I am an American, and no amount of whining or complaining will make me love her less.  I love those who love her and those who hate her.  

I believe in America, but more importantly . . . I believe in Jesus Christ, and because of that one simple fact, I believe I can help.   

It is time the church started loving America.  I believe that is her only hope.

I love you,

Pastor Keith