The American Dream

Hello friends!

I was having a discussion today with a friend concerning some of the economic troubles we are facing. I began to think about this blog, and I wondered if the topic was timely.

So many Americans are facing difficult days; with 10% + unemployment (the real figure is closer to 16% if you include those who have given up searching for work) and families being torn apart by political division and cultural strife and shock, it is easy to become a "negative thinker." The optimists appear to be losing. I am an optimist. I don't like losing.

So, I began counting blessings. I love the old Hymn that I learned in church, Count Your Blessings. It goes like this:

"Count your blessings name them one by one.
Count your blessings see what God has done."

Bing Crosby sang a great old song, called Counting My Blessings in which he sang about being able to "fall asleep, counting my blessings."

It got me to thinking about the American Dream, and taking a moment to re-wrap my mind around what that is. The American Dream is above all else individual liberty and freedom. Although this is certainly not our Grandparent's America (and the landscape is changing rapidly everyday) the opportunity for us to reclaim the totality of the country's framers' ideals of individual liberty is at our doorstep.

We have an opportunity to dream big dreams and achieve great things. I am calling for a rebirth of individual liberty. There is a dream inside the soul of every man, woman and child in this nation and that is a dream to live free. It is that dream that drives people across our boarders and to our shores.

It is the desire deep within an American to be INDEPENDENT of government assistance and intervention that our forefather's fought to preserve. Unfortunately our nation is becoming a nation of those who look outwardly for a hand out instead of inwardly for the solution to personal sustenance. I am ALL ABOUT HELPING people. I am all about helping people HELP THEMSELVES! I am all about helping people realize that there is a desire deep within to be FREE.

Does the American dream really exist? Is it possible to achieve today? Absolutely. Use today to look within and examine self. What is your American dream? How can you achieve it? How may I help you?

Be blessed!