The Threshold of a New Year

Christmas 2006 is history, and now a new year is upon us. 2006 is one of those years that I am happy to be able to put behind me. I'm sure I'm not the only one holding such sentiments. 2007 is nearly here, just a few hours away in fact. The coming year can be viewed an opportunity, a curse, or whatever else you choose to make of it.

Tomorrow night, many will be engaging in various forms of celebration. Some will choose to drink themselves into a drunken oblivion, others will choose to spend the final hours in churches all across the country in Watch night services. I will be doing the later, and I hope many others do as well. Somehow it is rather comforting facing the unknown of a new year in the fellowship of like-minded believers.

Let's make the most of it. God has given us another opportunity to serve Him. Let's take that opportunity and do our best to do what is right and good. I'm sure, there will be some nifty, and slightly retarded, slogans for 2007. But, don't let another's corniness rob you of the joy of having a new year. The Lord commanded us to "Occupy til I come", and that alone should be our slogan, our goal. Instead of sitting on our hands and saying, "What can I do...woe is me," just do something! And do it for the glory of our Lord and Saviour!

Have a happy new year, and may the good Lord bless and keep you all....'til I write again.

Editor/RP

Freedom Quotes Vol. III

It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

~Samuel Adams

Pledge of Allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the Constitution
For the united States of America,
And to the principles for which it stands:
One Supreme Law under God,
With Liberty and Justice for all.

~Unknown

It is absurd to congratulate ourselves on our right to go to the polls and choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum when in fact our governemnt, though it is never mentioned in polite circles, is in many aspects a plutocracy.

~Clyde Wilson, From Union to Empire: The Lost Constitution

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible impliment of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American....The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it shall ever remain, in the hands of the People.

~Tench Coxe, 1788

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

~Thomas Jefferson