Huzzah for Freedom

Whoot, whoot for voting! I love election days... even when the people I vote for lose... There is just something wonderfully exciting about stepping up and making your voice heard.

Yeah, this post is majorly late. :(

But, freedom is worth celebrating! Praise God for His good gifts.

Economic Thoughts Continued

A friend of the family from church sent me an article about the philosophy of economist, Fredrick Hayek. While I didn't agree with everything he espoused, he had some GREAT quotes...

“[Equality] of the general rules of law and conduct… is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty.”

More Parental Rights...

Once again, some friends and I visited a local college campus to collect signatures for the Parental Rights Amendment petition. We collected over 100 signatures in about 2 hours. Praise God!

CAP Day

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to lobby for homeschooling with HSLDA. It was a fantastic experience! God has blessed our nation so very much; we can visit our leaders and speak with them about the law of our land.

Armed with a new statistical, homeschool study by Dr. Ray, the Kincell family and I went to several offices and met with several staffers. It was a unique experience; I loved meeting people from all over the country and representing homeschooling to them.

Lobbying on behalf of homeschooling and parental rights is a great privilege and responsibility. I confess that I was quite nervous, but with the help of my friends, I was never far off course. With some practice (and I plan on going again), I could become quite familiar and comfortable! And I encourage all of you to speak to your representatives at the local, state, and federal level. Liberty once lost is hard to regain. It is our duty to provide for our children (or future children), and this includes freedoms.

If you would like to learn more about homeschooling or parental rights... Please post a comment, or check out the websites.

Petitioning -- The Parental Rights Amendment

Being politically active requires sacrifice. BUT, it is worth every moment. As Daniel Webster once said, "God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." Well said, Mr. Webster; I couldn't agree more...

With this in mind -- and armed to the teeth with information --, some friends and I stood in the "Free speech" zone at the Mountainlair. We petitioned passer-byes to protect US sovereignty and to protect parental rights. With clipboards, pamphlets, and fact sheets, we tried to collect signatures to send to our representatives.

It amazed me how many students were ignorant not only about the UNCRC and the danger it represents, but also they were ignorant of what sovereignty is!

May God correct the ignorance in our nation. May He be pleased to use my feeble efforts in the process.


Please become PRO-active! For more information visit: ParentalRights.org

Rick Warren's prayer

"Let us pray.

Almighty God, our Father, everything we see and everything we can’t see exists because of you alone. It all comes from you. It all belongs to you. It all exists for your glory.
History is your story. The Scripture tells us, “Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is One.” And you are the compassionate and merciful one. And you are loving to everyone you have made.

Now, today, we rejoice not only in America’s peaceful transfer of power for the 44th time. We celebrate a hingepoint of history with the inauguration of our first African American president of the United States. We are so grateful to live in this land, a land of unequaled possibility, where the son of an African immigrant can rise to the highest level of our leadership. And we know today that Dr. King and a great cloud of witnesses are shouting in heaven.
Give to our new President, Barack Obama, the wisdom to lead us with humility, the courage to lead us with integrity, the compassion to lead us with generosity. Bless and protect him, his family, Vice President Biden, the cabinet, and every one of our freely elected leaders.

Help us, O God, to remember that we are Americans, united not by race, or religion, or blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us. When we presume that our greatness and our prosperity is ours alone, forgive us. When we fail to treat our fellow human beings and all the earth with the respect that they deserve, forgive us. And as we face these difficult days ahead, may we have a new birth of clarity in our aims, responsibility in our actions, humility in our approaches, and civility in our attitudes, even when we differ.

Help us to share, to serve and to seek the common good of all. May all people of goodwill today join together to work for a more just, a more healthy and a more prosperous nation and a peaceful planet. And may we never forget that one day all nations and all people will stand accountable before you. We now commit our new president and his wife, Michelle and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, into your loving care.

I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life, Yeshua, Isa, Jesus [Spanish pronunciation], Jesus, who taught us to pray:

'Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.' "

I was fairly pleased with this prayer... and I echo "Amen."