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The Victory of the Cross

Excerpts from the article. Use the link to read its entirety. It's beautiful, sensitive and acknowledges the power of the Holy Spirit to deliver us from evil.

"Twenty years ago, on November 9, 1989, the most visible symbol of totalitarian evil, the Berlin Wall, tumbled down. Two years later, the Soviet Union officially dissolved on Christmas Day 1991. The fall of the Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union transpired in relative calm, but they followed decades of repression, cruelty, and murder by the Soviet regime.

The trumpet blasts that finally destroyed the Berlin Wall in a peaceful revolution and brought freedom to millions in Eastern Europe were political, economic, diplomatic, and military in character. But it became evident to us in working on our new documentary, Nine Days that Changed the World, that spiritual factors were decisive, as Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan rallied the West to a defense of freedom and human dignity...

In his "Evil Empire" speech in 1983, Reagan said, "I've always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith. . . . I believe we shall rise to the challenge. . . . I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man."

From his election in October 1978, Pope John Paul II constantly preached that it was only through Jesus Christ that man could fully understand his great dignity and his future vocation and therefore no country had the right to exclude Christ from its history. When the Pope preached this message in June 1979 in Warsaw's Victory Square, on an altar with the backdrop of a 50-foot cross, one million of his fellow Poles responded in affirmation with 14 minutes of applause, interrupted by singing in one voice: Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat (Christ Conquers, Christ Reigns, Christ Governs). In an officially atheistic country, the Polish people dramatically bore witness that God was sovereign, not the state."

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

Public transportation or personal automobile?

Very interesting independent movie about 1 hour long on General Motors and how they destroyed America's public transportation system to promote auto sales. This is no joke.

As a child I remember riding the bus to/from our home in Hueytown, Alabama to the YMCA in downtown Bessemer. After our swimming classes we would wait in the library next door for our bus. We read a lot. It didn't matter if we missed the first bus or even the 2nd bus cause there would be another one behind it in 30 to 40 minutes so we just kept reading. When we finally got tired or hungry we would go outside and wait for the bus with as many books in our arms as the library would let us check out. We read while we waited. We did this 2 or 3 times a week. Our mother didn't have a car so she couldn't come looking for us. This was the mid 1950's so child kidnapping was uncommon especially in the small town of Bessemer, Alabama. When Mother finally got a car in about 1956, we stopped riding the bus and started driving most places. However, if Mother was at work we rode our bicycles to the library and brought our books home in the bike basket or tied them on the back fender. We walked to church (about 8 blocks) 3-4 times a week. We walked to the corner grocery store. We skated if we were playing close to home but the bicycle was my most reliable transportation until I married at 18 yrs. During high school, I rode to school with a classmate who was fortunate enough to own his own car. That was a luxury!! As a band student, it was not uncommon for me to practice after school so often I walked home from good ole BHS, about 3 miles from home, with books and clarinet case in tow. Walking is good, but to tell you the truth, I didn't enjoy that walk because of the load I carried.

By the time I married in 1963 we could only afford one car, so we car-pooled for about 2 years. Later around 1967 when I went to college we had a freeway to Birmingham so my husband and I bought a 2nd car so we could go to school/work separately, as needed. Occasionally, my husband or I would ride the bicycle to the corner store or around the block when we were teaching our young son to ride his first bike. The bicycle that Daddy gave me for my 9th birthday was retired to the backyard until someone "voluntarily relieved" me of it. In other words, it was stolen. I miss that bicycle.

Another Broken Promise

Another Broken Promise

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INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY

INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY

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