The Republicans venerate Ronald Reagan’s legacy, the Democrats FDR’s, but both look to the past, mired in the status quo. And we must create differently now, the same-old-same-old will not do. It is a New Millennium, and not World War II. The Depression is over, or have we created another? With bank failings and the status quo? For we build layer upon layer, more regulations and rules, we bog down in bureaucracies, stifled and tied to the out-worn. We must streamline to become efficient in this New Day and Age, when instincts can look and see that what we’re doing isn’t working very well. How good is our education? Are our streets safe from crime? Are people working and saving for retirement? Or do they squander and act foolish sometimes, when they get second mortgages to pay off credit cards? We have been very foolish, most wise men would agree, but if we don’t change direction, more of it we’ll receive. We’re drowning in debt, both here and abroad, do we really need to keep getting further in the red? God, help us, please, we’ve made a mess of things. And did it all start when we turned our back on You? Kicked out from our schools, erased from public buildings, sued and eliminated anywhere we could. But are we better off than 50 years ago? When the New Deal was needed, and back then God was too. Give us Guidance, give us Wisdom for all we long to do, to right this nation sinking under the weight of Iraq and the price of crude. Give us a sense of direction, give us a sense of peace. Let us find our bearings, lost in this Land of Promise, for we have lost our way, as if lost at sea.
God is giving us a chance to do things differently and we must take it — for ourselves, the Earth and posterity.