Dear Blog Friends,
It may have appeared this Dream/Vision blog had disappeared into a dark hole in space. Not so!


May and June were dedicated to an unexpected surgery, then recovery therapies and ouchy exercises.  Personal dreams ran amuck, often confused and definitely not worth remembering. - But on July 3rd, I woke up singing an American Revolutionary War song, written and very popular in the era of my late childhood. Possibly written by Irving Berlin? (I'm not sure.) The lyrics went like this:

"In '76 the sky was red, thunder rumbled overhead.  Bad King George couldn't sleep in his bed, and on the stormy morn, Old Uncle Sam was born!  Old Sam put on a 3-cornered hat and in a Richman church he sat, and Patrick Henry told him that, while America drew breath, it was liberty or death!"


The words and music repeated themselves three times. - words I hadn't sung for years.  I told myself, "this must be because tomorrow is the 4th of July.  That explains why I woke up this morning singing this wonderful old song."


Now, blogger friends, let me tell you from experience why it is wise to dig deeper when you dream a dream that refuses to be erased from your mind.  The Dream Giver didn't accept my "4th of July" explanation.  Someone from above had something important to say to you and I.  When asked, "Lord, is there something more you want to tell me?"  I picked up my notebook and wrote these words:


"America has once again an important decision to make.  Will she choose Liberty in Christ, given by the one who berthed this nation? - or stumble on into encroaching defeat and death?  Will she follow the pattern of so many countries who disappeared in world history?  Will Americans accept insurmountable problems, despair and darkness, or reach for God's amazing grace?  Who will you follow?  Who gets her allegiance?  Choose well."


Our lives often depend on the choices we make.  The lives of our children and grandchildren are effected by the choices we make.  The very existence of our country as a democracy "of the people, by the people, for the people" will depend on choices made by Americans now. - Again I tell my precious bloggers, "Praise, Pray, Trust GOD and listen well, He will do the rest."


Christ said, " I have come to set the captives free."  He is our redeemer, our champion, our freedom fighter, our God.  Satan the usurper said, "I've come to kill, steal, and destroy."  He is our deceiver, our tempter, our implacable enemy.  Who will you choose to follow?  You are here for this time not by chance but by God's choice.