Morals

Oh dear, It's late again... Oh well.

Well work is actually going well! (I haven't made too many mistakes recently and I think I'm actually starting to get it down which is a HUGE relief :) ) This past week my family (my mom, my dad, and I) all went to California to go see the Hearst castle (I have no idea how to spell that), Solvang (again spelling?), Disneyland :), and, after taking a day at home, we went to our cabin with Amelia, Pete, Audrey, Cameron, and Becca joining the crew (oh and Piper and Hazy). It was quite fun!

I actually think that my favorite part of the trip was listening to a talk on a few of the Founding Fathers and another CD about George Washington.

The talk on the Founding Fathers spoke about how our forefathers were not atheists and so on and there is actual proof of it in those men's own documents. The men back in those days wrote books and books about their lives and the times. (it was their version of television :). But, for some reason, we have decided that they didn't believe in God and that their constitution is basically obsolete to what our day requires of us. (Seriously??? Isn't truth supposed to be lasting?? It's true ALWAYS. If only part of it is true than it's not true!) Anyways, I learned quite a few things about a couple of the Founding Fathers from this interesting talk (I sadly can't remember who spoke... I could probably look it up, but I'm too lazy. I don't know where to look, and it's really late :P)

Anyways, have you ever heard of the Founding Father John Hart? I definitely never had. He was a family man. Loved his wife and adored his children. He had twelve kids in all and he also loved his farm. Anyways, he was an important man in (I think it was New Jersey) and did a couple of things like make that state's constitution or something along those lines?? (Perfect, go look it up yourself, then you'll know for certain :P) Anyways he signed the Declaration of Independence. So, the British, when they go to America, are ordered to find the signers and kill them, capture them, and get rid of them. They go on to New Jersey. John Hart is there and two neighbors run to his door and tell him that he has to get out of there now! He was too important to lose. He was home because he was nursing his ill wife back to health and it was almost time to tend to his crops. He didn't want to leave and refused them, but they insisted. He eventually fled into the woods and the British stormed his house. Seeing that he wasn't there, they assumed he went into the forest next to his house and were alluded by him for a whole year.

Well, eventually the British leave, tired of not being able to find him. (You have to imagine. He lived in caves, out in the wild, all alone for an entire year all because he signed an important document) So, he comes home and you want to know what he finds? His farm was burnt down to the ground. Horrified, he tries to find his wife but he soon learns that she was captured and died because of her sickness. He desperately searches for his children but they're gone as well. He never finds them and he eventually dies literally of a broken heart. I find that, so sad. And I never knew about his sacrifice until just the other day.

Here's another story that I found fascinating. Robert Morris (again someone I had never heard of before) signed the Declaration of Independence and was put in charge of financing the Revolutionary war. A war, where the men were basically broke, had no supplies, and no help... against the super power of the world?? Yeah, he did it. He gave away 10,000 dollars to the effort and funded it for I think three years?? (again look it up. I'm a naive girl. I get my information wrong from time to time :P) He went into debtors prison because he became broke. Lost all of his money and eventually died in a neighbor's home. Did he complain? No, he followed his word. I'd like to see someone in our government do that now. Spend all of his money simply because he said he would go against the world's super power. (yeah.... I don't think so...)

One more that almost brought me to tears when I listened to it. Why? Because it happened, and I never even knew of the sacrifice before. The man's name was Abraham Clark. He was a signer and was in congress all during the Revolutionary war. His two sons joined the effort and, sadly, were captured and put in a war camp. (The thing about that was that back in those days you didn't want to be in one of those camps. You'd stay alive longer out in battle against guns and bayonets than in the camp because you could die from starvation or sickness) The British spoke to Abraham Clark and gave him an option. They told him that if he renounced what he said, if he recant and came out for the Crown and Parliament they would let his sons go free. He said No. It would have been a lie and he refused to lie. All of those men, were men of integrity and they knew, they Knew what they were getting themselves into. They weren't idiots. Look it up, just look it up for goodness sakes it's there. We just have to seek it!

Well, I know what I'm going to do. This summer, I'm going to learn. I'm going to teach myself all that I can about the truth in this country and I'm going to prepare for the worst. Something will happen, we may not know all of the details, but I'm tired of being left in the dark. I'm tired of not knowing about my country. Thus, I'm going to make a stand and become what I need to be in these dark times. And I might post a few of my findings on here just for kicks :)

Good day to all of you and may you find peace in these hard times and see the good that is there. There is good, so much good. I can't believe that mankind has become so hardened and terrible that there is no hope. No, there is hope and there is light, we just have to seek it. In all things we must choose to do what will be done and never give up.