Wake the Hell Up!

I woke up this morning to the news of devastation: another mass shooting.  This time, it was in a Bible Study in a church in Charleston.  Another gunman on the loose.  Another town devastated by the actions of an individual who clearly had his own evil intentions.  My heart is breaking for that town.  My heart is breaking for the victims' families.  My heart is breaking for the family of the gunman as well.  Devastation all around.  I pray that God's hand is on this.

I'm left with this question: When is this country going to wake up?

When are the blind people in this nation going to realize that our country is headed in a dangerous direction?  Our politicians are corrupt.  Our celebrities are being touted as heroes.  Our heroes that fight for our freedom are being treated like trash.  Our kids have no respect for adults.  Our adults have no respect for each other or themselves.  Women are pinching, poking, and injecting things into their bodies to make themselves look like porn stars or celebrities or twenty somethings to impress men.  Kids want to grow up too fast and adults want to behave like irresponsible kids.  What the heck is going on and why is half of our nation too blind to see it?

Look, I'm not an expert and I don't know how to fix this.  I honestly don't.  I know this much though: Our focus on our great nation, or lack thereof in a lot of cases, is killing our nation's spirit.  Our selfish spirits are spoiling the fruit of our nation's great tree.  We are basically taking something beautiful that was left to us and stomping on it.  It's devastating to watch.

We need to take back our country.  We need to bring it back to the beautiful, wonderful, patriotic nation that it once was.  We may not be able to clone what once was but we can do something else: we can make it even better.  We just need to open our eyes and work together.  Maybe that is an optimistic view but I believe in our nation's greatness and I believe that everyone has some good in them (even if they choose to squash it down to practically nothing). 

Maybe then, there will be REAL punishments for these criminals.  Maybe then some of this hatred will stop rearing its ugly head.