In a world where the brave die...

It was my last line to my friend Rocky following one of our many billions of intense converations about one subject that everything has in common with-the truth. 

We live in a time and maybe we always have, where the brave and the right are killed and the low and the wrong carry on hopelessly with false hope.  I have seen as much in my life that whether a man makes a public stand for the principal of right, love, or truth or rather lives those things quietly on his own quite path, he will suffer the anxietys of denial and hypocrasy on this earth.  And many like he, with a spirit so alive, is killed by spirits that have never truly lived!

Indeed, I can bloat this post with the gallons and miles of examples and explinations of this mortal and morbid fact of life existing in this human land but it far be more effective if you pin this fact to something you have personally seen or experienced.   For we have all seen how good and true can be sacrificed and how truly the good die young. 

We hear about and know of thousands of soldiers in our army who die brave...sent to the places of their deaths by the evil of a few leaders.  Oh, how I ask our country, a country where WE are accountable because WE are supposed to be the deciders; how do we make and let evil leaders send so many of our innocent brave noble sons to die for another's conquest and flawed ambition? 
For those of you who support Bush, how in the world can you make sense when you also say you support the troops?  Supporting a leader who sends the youngest and bravest of our land to die in fields that only he and his circle profit from...
Oh but we live in a world where we allow evil to lead.  We live in a world where we allow to be led to evil. 

And in these past fifty or so odd years and post 9/11 we've allowed so many of our laws to become as evil and corrupt as what the laws in the Bible were made to save us from!  In a land, in a land as beautiful and right as ours, all laws whether they be few or many should have one thing in common-to protect the right against the wrong to protect justice against injustice and to protect freedom from tyranny.  
However, we live in a world where the brave die.   We live in a world where there are laws that protect the wrong rather than the right, injustice rather than justice, and tyranny rather than freedom.  I have seen love outlawed by the law.  I have seen basic freedoms that grin from every corner of the constitution being forbidden.  I have seen people doing the right thing become prisoners. 

We live in a world where the brave die.  We live in a country where our leaders are not servants.  We use the right to vote to elect people to control us. We live in a country where our fathers do not echo our forefathers.  We live in a world that is mixed up, where laws are created to control and hinder love and peace under a slogan of security and safety.  In my opinion, not surprisingly, these falsely advertised laws save nothing but the injust core of their true designs. 
Good people with good hearts are restrained and silenced.  I see many who are friends, many who love, many who would protect and defend get beaten away like demons.  And in the place they were chased from true demons arrive with the ease and acceptance that I can never understand. 

In this world where the brave die I still have hope and am gushing in it.  I laugh and smile and steal my little joys despite all the hell around and grown.  For there is a God, a very loving God. 
This is not the god of the 700 club telemercials and the god wearing the color contrasting tie at a waxed plywood pulpit surrounded by fake ferns.  I refer not to a god that many are mislead into believing that 10% tides, one church, church raffles, or seclusion from all the world but the church could bring you close to him.  This is not the god owned, refered to, kept, promised by, handed out by, or limited to clean plump men with their suits or strange quite women with long hair or children forced to limit their souls and world to the seclusion of youth groups in the basements of pastors' brothers' homes. 

NO, the God that gives me hope every day in all these ravages of sin, doubt, fear, and decline is THE GOD, the one God.  He is the God who allows the narrow plastic fern god to exist through mercy alone. 
The true God of our universe is found and expressed in all our land's brave, the living and dead alike.  He is not a God of pologamy or several candles or a rabbit or star topped tree.  He is not the god who you feel guilty about missing when you can't fit into your church or find inspiration in cheap TBN programing or contimpary 'Christian' concerts.  He is the God that leads us through and past every sin that He had carried to the cross with Him.  He is the God of all the brave saints who were jailed and killed by evil leaders, their evil causes, and their evil laws.  Nothing else but The God gives glory to the right, the true, and good and judges those who do wrong, lie, and do bad.  Though we only see the dark results and hypocritical endings of human justice on this earth, eternity's true justice will begin when we pass from this planet as we all shall.  What is now, what is allowed now, what happens now, and what is forgotten now, will not last forever.  He gave us the earth and he gave us each a short life upon it.  And how we use this gift and live our life upon it will determine our soul's destiny when this gift is taken by death. 

God gave us America and God gave us the brave.  It has always meant that the only laws that exist SHOULD be limited to those inspired by His word.  God gave us love and freedom.  God gave us the truth and it is that gift I share with you tonight. 

I understand there may be a lot in this post that you do not understand for it is all almost too much for myself to understand.  If I don't understand it all, it doesn't matter, for although there is so much darkness and sadness in these truths, through God I can bear it! 

The messages I try to share here are wild. I didn't have the power or talent to bring all the meanings to you as smooth and easy as I wished however honest and true they are!  I only do not delete the whole thing because I believe a few out there might capture some of it and give it life. 

But to all of you I will share my appeal.  I will plant and grow a hope in me that many of you will heed and follow these following words today.  
Please, allow people to love others regardless of any detail but it.  Encourage love and freedom to others and to yourself. 
Respect, love, and befriend your children; trust them and listen to them.  Judge their friends only as you would judge your own; actions and words rather than anything else. 
Protect them as you would protect yourself; with common sense, love, and understanding.   Teach your children to smile and to be kind and true.  Teach yourself to do the same.  Do not lie, do not judge, do not be a double standard, be the parent that all children deserve.
Teach yourself what you teach your children.  Live the lessons you teach your children, live as great as you inspire your children to live. 
Make people smile today and salute the brave.  Appeal evil and open your heart to everything.  Honor the brave and let them live.