Jewells of Thought

The timing is really amazing when you look at history. How and when certain things happened. July 4th 1776 did not just happen on that one day. A myriad of events happened over the spread of at least a decade to bring about the amazing event of the 4th of July we now celebrate.

This year as I have already reviewed in at least one article was made as a movie the 1776 Musical from 1972. Seeing in this spectacular way the beginning of the American Chapter of History allowed me to see certain issues in a different perspective than I have seen conversed in this fashion. It was brilliant writing and deduction of what our Founding Fathers were actually thinking of in their time of the 1770’s.

As a Christian woman there are two things I have learned from Church as well as my family example about two important issues. They are equally crucial fundamental precepts coming about from the golden rule love one another; slavery and abortion. If you love God and show that you are a Christian these two issues show how God’s love can heal wounds surrounding these physical and emotional complexities to a person’s soul.

One of the amazing details of how the actors delved into their characters was at the end of this movie. Before that though John Rutledge gave the Independency seekers a lot to marinate over with his very defining masculine song of East Coast virtue with rum, sugar and slavery. It truly gave a time to pause and remember that even though the South was heavy on it’s slave labor the northern colonies liked their big business with sugar and rum somewhat camouflaged with charity while making them just as much money.

This was the last sledgehammer to the Declaration and on the question still on the Continental Congress agenda. Then the day of July 3rd a conversation between Dr. Franklin and John Adams brought the real focus into reality. Franklin straight up asked him, in my words, would you have us lose the Declaration for your abolitionists beliefs? What good would it have been to lose the whole south of the Congress to have slavery addressed and fail? What Franklin was trying to get this strong-willed Christian man to do was think strategically. If the Declaration is passed slavery could and would still be addressed in time. Without that Declaration of War against Britain these colonies wouldn’t have had the authority to even initiate such a large topic without the south’s backing.

Dr. Benjamin’s thinking goes for the Roe V. Wade situation as well. It may very well seem like they are both politics, but that is where we are right now in the middle of a very contentious presidential election. One side believes killing babies at a Convention is okay, even giving vasectomies, and contraception all from what looks like a food truck. This is what the other side thinks of God’s creation, motherhood and fatherhood. There may not be a fire pit, but it sure looks like a horrible scene from the day of Ruth when she was a priestess having to help with the offerings to whatever false God was served. There are countless other examples from the Bible of pagans offering up babies… and for what and at what cost emotionally, physically?

Yet it’s Trump’s policy that is so harsh to have had Roe V. Wade struck down. Now each state makes its own policy it is out of the hands of the Conservative Supreme Court. The court is not supposed to be Conservative or Liberal they are supposed to be based solely on the Constitution parties are not meant to intimidate this high court. Look at the layout it has come out to the states who want to have abortion have it and vice versa. This is absolute nonsense that doctors can’t make decisions when the mom and baby are in serious trouble. I read a long time ago at least 2 years ago that abortion is not what it is called when it does in fact come to that need. A DNC is another term for it. We all know there are concerns and complications that come up it is real and it is sorrowful.

For the Democrats to say having Roe V. Wade was better how can that be? It was based on a faulty scenario. The case was perjured to start with it didn’t happen the way they said it did. There are no rights to kill a child in either the Bill of Rights or the Constitution. This matter should have never been in the Supreme Court when it primarily deals with a woman’s body and her wants. Now it’s back in the hands of the people of each state where it should have always been. Taking this to the federal level was never a good idea. Thank goodness 50 years later it was able to finally be reversed just as it took Abraham Lincoln to address the issue of slavery within 100 years of being the United States of America.

God has a will and when people walk away from him we lose our way. So many babies have been saved because of this reversal. I remember reading an article at about Christmas time last year at all the thousands of babies who were alive because of that one decision. How many slaves lived to see and here Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation? They wouldn’t have been able to if there had not been a United States of America first. Benjamin Franklin was right he and those men who signed that Declaration were long gone, but they ensured that the measure would be on the agenda with a future president and future congress.