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As a young person I went to the movies a lot with my cousins, coming home in the dark was okay until my cousins parted company with me and I was left alone to walk the three blocks to my home. Always if there was a movie that was scary that I had just seen, it was then that all of the scary parts came rushing back to my mind. Within a half block, mind you, I still had three and half blocks to go, I would be running full boar, fearful that the scenes of that movie were right behind me; ready to eat me up like a roaring lion. I always figured that since I was so small one bite would be enough and no satisfaction there. One such movie was a western with covered wagons heading for some settlement out west. Elderly women in one scene were singing “Bringing in the Sheaves” everyone was happy and there was much joy in the hearts of the young people. The next scene (the next day) the older woman was being dragged in the in the dirt by some Indian on a horse. The wagon train was no longer headed west, the men were dead the young were in slavery and the younger women were absent from view. I remember running for all I was worth, even crying that I would be safe and my family would be safe and at home. Of course they were… this was just a movie and a scared kid with wet pants!

Challenge: Lamentations 5:1-22

There are no actors in Lamentations 5, it is my prayer in tears that you would take the time to read this chapter. It is no wonder that Jeremiah was called the “weeping prophet”! Look at the words of this man of God! “Remember O LORD, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US! As a nation in Jeremiah’s eyes the capital is in ruins a disgrace for anyone to see. A nation in the hands of another power is a disgrace, it is more than an embarrassing moment in time and it is “shame of face” for centuries to come.

Jeremiah continues to lament with the LORD regarding his homeland, it is as if he has trouble coming to grips with the reality in front of his eyes. “LORD, we have to buy our water to drink, and wood to keep warm and we are wearied with the aggression of our enemy and he does not cease to pursue us to the death! We have had to reach out to other nations for food. It is our fathers who have sinned and we are reaping the results as those who used to be our slaves are now our rulers.

Take the moment and read the rest of this chapter, I have a few things to say. “Our nation is saturated with migrant workers, some legally here and some are not. We hire them as low income workers (slaves). They come mostly from the Americas South. Because our nation is faint (temporarily unconscious) to this invasion, we will wake up when it is too late to do anything about it and we will be working for those who were once our slaves”.

The cost to the United States of America is not in the purchase of water, wood or food individually; even though it IS! The cost is the loss of national identity. National language, heritage, culture and freedom of life, liberty and happiness will be the price we pay. In September this state will be issuing an identification card to all the homeless and non-citizens and we are told by a politician and citizen who is of foreign descent that the naysayers should be a little more tolerant and let this happen without interfering.

While watching the news this morning when the commercial came on I hit what I thought was the button to mute the sound, but it was to advance the channel instead. To my surprise there was that political figure speaking in his native language and somehow, World War Two, the Battle of Iwo Jima and the people of his homeland were included in the our national history. Okay, the world was affected by World War Two, I agree; but I strongly disagree with any effort to dilute the history of our national heritage and change the direction of our national identity.