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What can be done for a broken egg at the bottom of the wall? If that egg had some significance or notoriety, should an egg reconstructionist be found to share his expertise regarding repair of Humpty Dumpty? How can it be done – Band Aids, Super-Glue, Duct Tape? Can Humpty Dumpty be returned to his original state and status – or will he look like a patchwork quilt following his reconstruction? Does the Nursery Rhyme dismiss any hope of restoration?
What can be done for a broken egg at the bottom of the wall? If that egg had some significance or notoriety, should an egg reconstructionist be found to share his expertise regarding repair of Humpty Dumpty? How can it be done – Band Aids, Super-Glue, Duct Tape? Can Humpty Dumpty be returned to his original state and status – or will he look like a patchwork quilt following his reconstruction? Does the Nursery Rhyme dismiss any hope of restoration?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
All the King's horses And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
A Syndicated Columnist has raised some questions about this nation as it embarks on a New Year and Decade. It is entitled: “A Decade Of Self-Delusion.” The following resounds with pessimism: “According to the International Monetary Fund, the United States began the century producing 32 percent of the world's gross domestic product. We ended the decade producing 24 percent. No nation in modern history, save for the late Soviet Union, has seen so precipitous a decline in relative power in a single decade. The United States began the century with a budget surplus. We ended with a deficit of 10 percent of gross domestic product, which will be repeated in 2010. Where the economy was at full employment in 2000, 10 percent of the labor force is out of work today and another 7 percent is underemployed or has given up looking for a job. Between one-fourth and one-third of all U.S. manufacturing jobs have disappeared in 10 years, the fruits of a free-trade ideology that has proven anything but free for this country. Our future is being outsourced - to China. While the median income of American families was stagnant, the national debt doubled. The Dollar lost half its value against the Euro. Once the most self-sufficient republic in history, which produced 96 percent of all it consumed, the U.S.A. is almost as dependent on foreign nations today for manufactured goods, and the loans to pay for them, as we were in the early years of the republic… There are nearly 200,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and another 30,000 more on the way, al-Qaeda is now in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa…We have a government that cannot balance its books, defend its borders or win its wars. And what is it now doing? Drafting another entitlement program as we are informed that the Social Security and Medicare trust funds have unfunded liabilities in the trillions. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the question is not whether we will preside over the creation of a New World Order, but whether America's decline is irreversible…”
Is this a “Humpty Dumpty” country beyond repair? Is the nation operating under a
“Self-Delusion”? Should Humpty Dumpty be left at the base of the wall as a conglomeration of a fragmented shell and a scrambled yoke and egg white? If no one cares and no one tries, is that the rationale approach? It will require more than Band Aids, Super Glue and Duct Tape! One of the keys may be referencing George Washington’s Prayer Book, in which he wrote: “Let my heart, therefore, gracious God, be so affected with the glory and majesty of (Thine Honor) that I may not do mine own works, but wait on Thee, and discharge those weighty duties which Thou requirest of men…” It was establishing and maintaining the focus stated in the concluding words of The Declaration of Independence: “We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these Colonies are, and or a Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” Remember the words of II Chronicles 7:14, “…if my people…will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways - I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Humpty Dumpty can be repaired – but – there is a price to pay and a focus required. Let’s do it God’s way! Consider these things with me!
Is this a “Humpty Dumpty” country beyond repair? Is the nation operating under a
“Self-Delusion”? Should Humpty Dumpty be left at the base of the wall as a conglomeration of a fragmented shell and a scrambled yoke and egg white? If no one cares and no one tries, is that the rationale approach? It will require more than Band Aids, Super Glue and Duct Tape! One of the keys may be referencing George Washington’s Prayer Book, in which he wrote: “Let my heart, therefore, gracious God, be so affected with the glory and majesty of (Thine Honor) that I may not do mine own works, but wait on Thee, and discharge those weighty duties which Thou requirest of men…” It was establishing and maintaining the focus stated in the concluding words of The Declaration of Independence: “We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these Colonies are, and or a Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” Remember the words of II Chronicles 7:14, “…if my people…will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways - I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Humpty Dumpty can be repaired – but – there is a price to pay and a focus required. Let’s do it God’s way! Consider these things with me!
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