God Bless America.

My sister and I used to always talk about how blessed our great country really is, but to really see for ourselves, we had to be far from home. We really discovered the great blessings of our homeland by giving them up for a while. Once we left the borders we just entered into the blend of Americans traveling to foreign lands and to our surprise we discovered that we were put in the same boat as everybody from Tom Cruise to the President himself. Most people not in America see Americans all as one in the same. No longer were we moderate conservative backgrounded southerners who loved people and wanted to share with the world the blessings handed to us, but we were considered as immoral Imperialistic Christian Muslim-hating crusaders that were coming to destroy the ways of life of millions of indigenous people. What a shock it was at the beginning when one had to learn how to defend oneself in silence and action, as opposed to useless attempts at convincing with talk. People learn what they live, and if their standard of living is oppressed and their livelyhood endangered, then who can blame their suspiscion that anyone who has teamed up in the past with their oppressor, would be any different? So then, that's why I go back, and why my wife and I want to season this land with the reality of the hope of all peoples which we believe to have dwelling deep in us, the hope of a rescuing salvation. It always comes in the form from which it is most needed to be. 

God be praised.