Monday, July 6, 2009

A Nation


I’m in Washington DC at the moment and have been touring our nation’s capitol and it’s not difficult to be inspired. This is OUR country and being in Arlington National Cemetery and seeing all the gravesites of people that have served this great nation its hard not to be motivated. These are people that believed in an ideal and fought for OUR freedom to pursue what an individual wants for their life. They were all involved with serving something bigger than themselves. Today in our culture everyone is so self involved and they miss the very meaning of this wonderful capitol. This country is dissolving on the very facet we were born on, freedom to pursue what we want as an individual. This ideal is so far off course that we don’t allow our self to give beyond ourselves. Everyone from politicians, business owners, to the general public we all have a sense of entitlement that is just plain ugly. This is nothing new however, I read today in the journal about a politician that took a 11 day “political trip” touring 7 countries and expensed it all to the tax payer. He said that the whole trip cost $2800 however he used a private military jet (most likely a Gulfstream 550) so it’s estimated as being close to a $70,000 trip. I restate this; the sense of entitlement is ugly.

When we look at our founding fathers they fought for an ideal that was bigger than themselves and created, arguably, the greatest country in world history.

How can people today be motivated just like our founding fathers? Have we completely lost sight of what America is? Or are we the epitome of being an American, self absorbed? With America’s blessings we need to help our brothers that are less fortunate. Think of the change, the movement that a nation can bring if we all contribute to a bigger cause, especially finding where our heart is leading us to go. Lavego wants to be that avenue to help impact, motivate, equip, people to DO.

Please join the cause by networking what we’re about and helping build this project.

We need prayer, people and funds......get involved!!!!!

1 comment:

  1. Wow... Yeah... I think I just wrote briefly recently on the sense of entitlement that I'm seeing so many people seem to have. It is ugly. It is frustrating. Right with you there.

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