None of us would have a fullness of liberties and blessings without the "American Excellence" we especially enjoy as citizens of the United States of America.
However, as our world changes all around us, there are fewer and fewer folks who believe in faith based justice, compassion, and respect for human dignity.
Further, the continued erosion of family and faith has prompted some lost souls even to join street gangs for the counterfeit feeling of belonging to something that will give them purpose, security, and a sense of belonging.
Far too many of us do not understand or even believe that our founding fathers knew that religion always should be a foundational principle of our beliefs and behavior.
These fathers of our liberty knew that morality does not exist without faith.
They testified that faith was and is an essential ingredient of good governance and human happiness.
George Washington, in his "Farewell Address", warned us that,
"...Reason and experience both forbids us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle...It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring to popular government."
Regarding our individual rights and liberty, Harold B. Lee, former President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), taught that,
"...we seek to build the individual and we must not mistake the scaffolding of the soul."
All of us should and must seek out and be true to the principles of our individual faiths.
We should and must dare to be different from those who lack faith (and hope).
During this Christmas holiday season, let us all strive to be more humbly dedicated to the testimony of our personal faith, from which stems our and our families' sacred national legacy and patrimony.
Merry Christmas!
However, as our world changes all around us, there are fewer and fewer folks who believe in faith based justice, compassion, and respect for human dignity.
Further, the continued erosion of family and faith has prompted some lost souls even to join street gangs for the counterfeit feeling of belonging to something that will give them purpose, security, and a sense of belonging.
Far too many of us do not understand or even believe that our founding fathers knew that religion always should be a foundational principle of our beliefs and behavior.
These fathers of our liberty knew that morality does not exist without faith.
They testified that faith was and is an essential ingredient of good governance and human happiness.
George Washington, in his "Farewell Address", warned us that,
"...Reason and experience both forbids us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle...It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring to popular government."
Regarding our individual rights and liberty, Harold B. Lee, former President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), taught that,
"...we seek to build the individual and we must not mistake the scaffolding of the soul."
All of us should and must seek out and be true to the principles of our individual faiths.
We should and must dare to be different from those who lack faith (and hope).
During this Christmas holiday season, let us all strive to be more humbly dedicated to the testimony of our personal faith, from which stems our and our families' sacred national legacy and patrimony.
Merry Christmas!
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