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Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor
We ARE the People and we'd better do our absolute best to prove that.
| > And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. These words–penned by Thomas Jefferson and his fellow countrymen, in the midst of a war with the country of their forefathers–send shivers down my spine every time I read them. I’m working on re-memorizing this and the Constitution as it’s been many years since I had it sink into my brain and heart. As I read the words that announced to the world a new experiment in human rights and liberties, I am swept up in the epic that has spanned America’s history. I am ever-more proud to be an American, banding together with my brothers and sisters in a fight to preserve and protect our rights and liberties for future generations. The America our children are growing up in is fraught with threats to our freedoms and way of life. It is not the first time we’ve faced down these dangers and–by God’s grace–it will not be the last. I am sitting in a hotel room in Colonial Williamsburg pondering and prepping for our first night of the COS Summit, and it strikes me again. I get the honor and privilege to represent the ones who have gone before and the ones who will come behind in the never-ending battle for America and the principles that have made it the greatest nation in the world. We don’t live in a Utopia of unrealistic ideals and perfection. If we did, we would no longer be able to call it Utopia, because we humans reside in it. We imperfect, fallible human beings have so much potential for good if we rise above our low expectations and grasp our best and brightest qualities with both hands. Made in God’s image, humans have seen and done the very worst of evils to humanity and yet we have also seen and done the very best. Much of that very best jumps straight out of this nation we call home. And it is that very best of us that I call on today. That potential for the great good that I passionately declare to be worth fighting for. I feel a little like William Wallace, today. (Okay, Mel Gibson as William Wallace, but my point stands). > They may take our lives but they will never take our freedoms.  We have one chance. Here. Now. To get it right. To call our government to account for their thievery and corruption. To stand firm on the values and principles that our Forefathers fought so hard to preserve, knowing that it is only a nation of virtuous people that can succeed and thrive in this Great Experiment. Our forefathers believed in the Constitution and their Declaration so strongly that they willingly fought and died for it. We have never yet made use of Article V to take our power back, but it could be argued that we’ve been hiding it up our collective sleeve for just such a time as this. This is a time when our nation has been devastated by a post-truth culture that has left us reeling and storm-tossed, when a generation is crying out for answers and any anchor in the crashing waves. We aren’t trying to play God. We’re taking the tool that the Founders gave us to use in the midst of the abuses of power they knew were all to easy to succumb to, and we’re saying, “No more.” This is what the Convention of States is all about. It’s about empowering this generation and those to come, to stop playing the victim and start acting like the victors we are, by virtue of the God who made us and our forefathers’ blood in our veins. He made the blood of the Founders, who had a vision and implemented it, as well as the the blood of an immigrant who sought the beacon of light that America is and brought their family out of the darkness of tyranny and oppression. We are the people, and we'd better do our absolute best to prove that. Together, let us pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to preserve and defend this nation and the people we love. |
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| Created: | 2019-08-22 19:59 GMT |
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