“...Through The Rockets Red Glare…”

It's July 4th, right after some thunderstorms had passed through and I heard a large number of pops and bangs coming from outside. I stepped out the door to see a brilliant display of fireworks set off as people were trying to use the window of time between storms to shoot off their fireworks. It was a beautiful sight. The first thought that crossed my mind was the I had seen a similar sight on the tellevision a few years before as our planes were bombing Sadam Hussein's military forts at the beginning of the Iraqi War. My mind was also taking me back to the times through the past 233 years that our brave men and women have fought to keep our freedoms in place.

I thought that this must have been what Francis Scott Key was seeing as we were declaring our freedom from England and what a beautiful sight it must have been to him. No wonder he wrote the words, "through the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof to the night that our flag was still there". What a beautiful sight it must have been to the Iraqis who were dreaming of having their own freedom. Nothing in this life worth having is really free. It cost somebody something, and when it comes to freedom, it most always costs brave citizens their lives.

So, making a long story very short, watching the fireworks in my neighborhood really made me stop and think about how blessed we still are as a Nation. We spit ion God's face with our acceptance of homosexuality, we stick our thumb in His eye with our acceptance of abortion, we rub it in His face that our leaders can't even say that we are a Christian Nation, and He still loves us and blesses us. Because of the fact that God still loves us and still blesses us, we can all still say that we live in the greatest country in the world