An Open Letter to God

Almighty Creator,

This is a plea for forgiveness and for help.

First, forgive me for the anger and revulsion I feel toward the President, the Senate Majority Leader, the Speaker of the House, and all their colleagues as they wrench our great Republic off its moorings of self-reliance, individual freedom, and obedience to Your Word. Help me to pray for them and to forgive them for their sins. How can I do otherwise? You assumed human form and took upon Your flesh all the sins of every man, woman, and child, past, present, and future as atonement for our sins, suffered unspeakable agony, and went to Hell – all to spare those who accept the gift of Your grace and follow Your teaching. Since You forgive us all, how can I not do likewise?

Second, help them. We know Your Holy Spirit moves among us every day and guides sinners to the path of righteousness. We see murderers repent and repay. We see adulterers mend their ways and restore their relationships. I beg You to soften the hearts of Your children Barack, Harry, and Nancy and all their collaborators.

Teach them that Your great gifts are life and freedom. Show them that a nation that has aborted 50 million unborn since 1972 mocks You, and that a just society condemns murder, rather than promoting it. Show them that a just society allows Your works to be done through the free choice of men and women, and that no one has the right to take from another. Teach them that coerced “giving” demeans both donor and recipient. Set them on a path to freedom, not to socialism.

You gave us a great gift in the Constitution of the United States. Show the voters of our nation and those they elect the truth of this document. Teach them that the mere desire of Congress to act does not give Congress the right. Lead our judges to follow the word of that document, and not their personal wishes. Turn the hearts of the employees of the Executive branch to follow the true meaning of the Constitution, and to put aside all the laws, orders, and regulations that trample on the individual freedom and limits on government embodied in our founding documents.

Above all, mend the soul of President Obama. Show him that government cannot justly take the work of one person to provide for another. Show him that only earned things have value. Teach him to love and respect every American, and to use his gifts to encourage us to help one another by choice, not by government coercion. Turn his mind away from false and failed programs that weaken the fabric of our society by rewarding sloth, indolence, and ignorance. Help him to see that freedom is Your gift to us, and that You are not mocked.

You, Lord, have led Your people into the wilderness and into slavery when they turn from You. Spare us this fate. Lead our nation to truth and justice by restoring our commitment to individual freedom to create, to give, to succeed, and to fail. Teach us reverence for human life and guide us to become faithful stewards of the world you gave us. Show us how small we are in Your universe, and teach us the folly of thinking we can alter the level of the sea or the temperature of the planet. Turn our hearts and minds to worship You, the creator, and away from the false religion that worships Your creation.

Spare us from false prophets that deny Your deity and reject the one, true savior, Jesus Christ. Help us preserve Your church that believes in and worships You, and give us the earthly strength to turn away the vandals that would replace that church with another.

Give us strength to form the army that loves You and makes a nation in Your image: loving, forgiving, free, strong, and just. Give us a nation of individuals, prepared to take nothing they did not earn, and to share willingly with those whose love and efforts earn their charity. Turn us away from a nation of entitlement, and show us all that it is a sin to give a handout, and a blessing to give a hand up.

I know it is our duty to work to achieve these goals, and we will bend our effort to make them a reality. But I am so small, and evil is so large. I can do nothing without your help. An army wearing Your armor will surely prevail, as an army cloaked in evil must perish.

So, Lord, help me and forgive me, and help our nation and forgive it. You have given us so much; do not let us squander your gift in pursuit of earthly delusions.

In the name of Him who bore all our sins and opened the door to redemption,

Amen