The times.....

A couple of days ago, I was reminded of a poem I wrote in 1985 after I'd visited the former Soviet Union.  We'd spent 11 days playing basketball and "touring", during which time, this naive 21 year old, was shocked by the limitations people there lived under.  It's one thing to read about communism and socialism and quite another to experience it first-hand, even as a "tourist".  

In the poem, I reflected upon sights, sounds and smells, and the last two lines read:

I never knew what freedom was

Until I saw what it is not.

Those same words flooded my being this week as I read about our nation's freedoms slowly being whittled away.  The tell-tale sign in the former Soviet Union of freedom being gone was the rise and promulgation of atheism.  

When a nation turns its back on God, freedom, in the truest sense of the word, flies out the window.  May we learn from other nations' mistakes and turn back to God in America!