Daddy! Help! We Broke It!

  (Written by, Angela Kaye Mason)

We were given an awesome gift. It was beautiful, exactly what we wanted. Everything we needed, we got out of this gift with a little effort on our part. It was shiny and new, a little raw and needed work, but it was clean, and fresh, and ours. With love and care this gift was wonderful for all. Everyone was invited to share it, and if everyone who used it had maintained it, it would truly be awesome by now. But we broke it. Drug it through the dirt, filled it full of trash, did not maintain it, and we broke it.
At first it was just broken into a few big pieces. Would have been simple for a Father to fix, but we tried to fix it ourselves instead. We were going through that independent ''I do it myself'' stage that 3 and 4 year olds are famous for. Instead, we keep shattering each piece more and more, and STILL we refuse to let our Daddy step in and make it new again.
''What is she talking about?'' you may ask. America. This gift was our freedom, in an awesome nation which I love with everything in me. I feel very lucky to have been born here, to this freedom. It is a GOD-given right, which He chose to give us long before this land was ever discovered. He gave us free-will upon creation, and we Americans have used this gift more than any other.
How did we break it? Well..picture this: Our ancestors, whether people like it or not,  founded this country on GOD. They went through a LOT, left their homes, took their families, children, and boarded a ship to travel for months in horrible conditions to go to a place they had never seen Why? So that they could worship GOD. They wanted freedom of religion. The ''separation of church and state'' was never meant to be used to push God out of schools, government buildings, etc. I mean...for goodness sakes, back AFTER it was written the school and churches were IN THE SAME BUILDING! This ''separation'' law was written so that the government could no longer FORCE us to worship in THEIR way. It was written to protect us from government interference. And yes, I believe this law is for everyone, not just any one religion. I think that if you want to bow down every day and worship Mickey Mouse, and when it is prayer time in school, you wish to pray to Mickey Mouse, then that is your right, because, as I said, God gave us free will. It is not the government's place to take the free will God gave us.
And this was just the beginning of the breaking of our gift. As I said, we had to try to fix it ourselves, instead of letting our very capable Daddy renew it. Look back a few years shall we? Its the 1950's. Mama stays home, cares for the kids,cooks, cleans, pretty much has it made. Daddy goes to work, handles the discipline, pays the bills, HEADS THE HOUSE! Now..I know a few women will hate me for this , but here we go. They just HAD to fight for equal rights. Forgetting what the Bible said, forgetting that God put man as the head of the house , not to degrade us, but so that we could be in our natural, caring, nurturing role in a safe, protected environment. They had to try to improve it. So they fought, and they won. We, as women , had it made, but it wasn't good enough. Now, with the economy crashing, more women are working than men. More kids are in jail, on drugs, in gangs. Children are growing up with a confused sense of gender-roles and believing they were ''born gay''. More abortions are taking place, sometimes simply because a woman doesn't want a child to interrupt her career. Others are because of immorality, whether by promiscuous actions, rape, etc. The Catholic church has just decided to accept homosexuality in the church and approve of same sex marriage.
So we now have reversed gender roles, abortions, gangs taking over cities, children killing children, crushed economy, government trying to cost people more money while everyone is losing their jobs, immorality is not just accepted, it is now welcome in our churches, and even in small town America, it is not safe to walk down the street. It is broken, and we can't fix it. Daddy can...but we won't let Him, because we must be ''free''to say
''I do it myself.''