This afternoon after working on the yard I went to buy us a chicken wrap for lunch. As I drove, I started thinking and this thought came to mind...."I would have said No!*"
You see, it wasn't my decision for our middle son to go active duty. I would have said no because our son is young and full of life and has so much yet to see. I would have said no because his face is bright like sunshine and there is life in his laughter and we have not yet experienced all there is to see.
I would have said no. I would have said "I will not let you go and fight for a country whose greater majority feels like they are entitled and we owe them. I will not risk letting you go fight when the country I love is losing freedom to lawsuits.
When an entire organization has to change their uniform code to pacify someone from another culture whose religion calls him to wear a turban, he benefits from the freedom our country affords. The issue is not the turban, the issue is that he joined the organization, the organization did not join him we have lost the freedom to enforce uniformity in an organization when we allow exceptions.
When the freedom to pray in a classroom has been banished even though our forefathers built this country on Christian principles, we have lost our freedom to choose. We live in a country that operates on free enterprise but there are those who believe it is their right to violate that by smashing glass doors and taking what someone else has worked as long as they don't get caught.
When a child in the class room will not stand and salute our flag and states ' I don't have to because of my religion' they exercise the freedom to choose and many are fighting to provide that. Those who live in our country should honor our country and because many don't, I would have said no, the risk is too high.
When law enforcement have to account for every decision and the bad guy gets the benefit of the doubt. I would have said no!
I would have said no, I will not let you go because I love you, and your'e our son and we strongly believe in and love our country but the cost is to high when our own are burning our flag and challenging authority and cursing the very freedom affording them to do that.
I would have said no! I have seen the worst of the worst and they just don't care what the cost is as long as you don't mess with their "rights!" I will not give our son!"
Yep, that was me! Not gonna lie.
Working as He always does, God put this this thought on my mind.
"I would have said no too, but instead I gave my Son to a dying world, a world without hope. I gave my son to an ungrateful world that worshiped idols and did not revere my name. I gave my son despite the sin and the cursing and the denying of a living God." He felt the pain and the sorrow of his inevitable fate but He went anyway....He is my Son and He gave his life for a dying world."
So I dried my tears and I thanked God for sending His Son to allow me the freedom to choose eternal life. I pray that our son will be protected mentally, physically and spiritually because this is real. We thank God for sending his Son, and we pray for ours but I would have said no!
And Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: Father the time has come. Glorify your Son that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all the people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life that they may know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. John 17:1-3
*To clarify the statement, because he is our son, our hearts would have said no, but in reality we wholeheartedly support our son's decision. He loves our country enough to fight for it and we love him enough to support that. Please keep him and all our military in your prayers.
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