As Election Day is drawing closer, I’m proud to be an American where I have the freedom and right to vote and the ability to place my confidence in our leaders.
Twelve years ago, I spent two months living in New Zealand as part of a missions trip. One nugget of truth that I’ll always carry with me from that trip is a gratefulness for our freedoms and our rights as Americans.
Living in another country, even for a short time, opened my eyes to what we really have here.
While in New Zealand, we celebrated the 4th of July. As part of our celebration, we listened to Lee Greenwood’s song “God Bless the USA” (multiple times, if I remember right).
Today while driving to town for my husband’s doctor’s appointment, we came across the same song on a CD. Talk about exhilarating. There’s just something about the song that tugs at my heart and makes me proud to be an American.
(If you live in our neck of the woods in central W.Va., we were the crazy ones in the Jeep blaring the song and singing at the top of our lungs totally loving the 4 or 5 times we played the song too!)
If you’ve not heard Greenwood’s song or listened to it in awhile, please listen…
Can you envision your choice of a presidential candidate standing and singing this song with all his heart?
P.S. – Did you notice the old man with the wheelchair standing in honor of the flag when all the others around him were still seated? Something tells me he was a former defender of our freedoms.
Related posts:
Recent Comments