Land of Tomorrow

I wish I could adequately express my feeling and passion for my Country. When public and important individuals tear her down as being to prideful and a disgrace on the world stage, I long to set the record straight. America has been a beacon of hope and liberty to a hurting world. She has her faults, but her goodness and generosity far outshines them. Time and time again, history has shone that Americans have been willing at every turn to lay down their lives for not only their fellow American’s freedom, but for their fellow man’s freedom across the world

God created something unique when He formed this great Nation. I truly believe that God created us so that through us He could bless the peoples of the world. Through our material wealth, we have been able to feed the hunger. Through our physical strength, we have freed entire people groups from tyranny and oppression. And through our spiritual heritage, we have sent forth the gospel message of true freedom to every corner of the globe.

Ronald Reagan once said, “America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, ‘You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won’t become a German or a Turk.” But then he added, ‘Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.’”

Almost every time I hear these words, I get choked up. We are unique among the nations of the earth. America is a land where everyone who longs for liberty and freedom is welcome. I believe Reagan most succinctly described America’s role in the world when he called us a “Shinning City on a Hill”. My heart’s deep desire is for us to never step back from that role. We are the guardians of liberty and freedom for the peoples of the earth that for too long have known only fear and evil. As long as America is, I will fight to remind her peoples that we hold the key to a world’s better tomorrow.

“Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, everyday is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become but is always in the act of becoming. Emerson was right: America is the Land of Tomorrow.” – Ronald Reagan