Imagine you are walking down a path. After a while you come to a fork in the road where you now have two choices, the path on the left or the path on the right. Which one do you take? As far as you can tell it looks as though each path goes to the same destination, whatever that is. There really doesn’t seem to be much of a difference in the direction of the two paths and if there is a difference in direction, it is such an insignificant difference that it is almost imperceptible. Again, you ask yourself the question, which path do I take? As you look closer, you notice that one path is well travelled while the other is overgrown with trees, bushes, weeds and other greenery. It is much lusher and green then the other path which seems to be mostly dirt. One might enjoy the lush, green path if they didn’t mind some work to get through the brush. You could tell that the path on the right, the lush, green path, had not been travelled on for a long time and not very often. The dirt path or the path on the left had been used much more often to the point that it seemed the more common path for the frequent traveler of these paths. You wonder why that is. What makes the path on the left more desirable then the path on the right? Is it the destination? Is it because it appears easier and therefore a cause for less worry and concern for what one might find further down the path?
As you read this, you might be thinking about the meaning behind this story. This is the story of America. The founding fathers of this nation were this first make this choice of which path to take. The first to have to make this decision. The difference between us and them is they had to create a completely new path for us to follow. The lush and green path that is talked about didn’t exist. The thing they understood is that they didn’t want to go down the existing dirt path that was easier and didn’t require any work. They knew what the destination was going to be down the dirt path. The destination would be just like or worse than what they just left. That is why they declared their independence from England. They knew there would be no hope or promise for a better life for generations to come, only misery, suffering and enslavement to the elitists in power back in England. The great Founding Fathers of this nation forged a new path for us, hoping that we would follow in their footsteps. For the most part, we have. There have been times in the history of this nation that we have found ourselves, for one reason or another, on the wrong path. As we mentioned, these paths mostly follow the same general direction so you could, if you wanted to, jump back and forth between the two paths. If, for instance, you got tired for forging through the path on the right and all the hard work it entailed, you could jump over to the path on the left and just walk for a while without the least bit of resistance. The thing we don’t see is what lies ahead. If we were to be able to fly overhead and see both paths through to their destination you would see that these paths eventually separate enough that there is no way to go back. You might also see a deep gorge appear between the two paths which would make it impossible to go back to the path on the right without going backwards far enough that you could see the both paths again. But why make that decision? Why not stay on the path that our Founding Fathers forged for us and gave their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for.
We need to make a decision. Our country is headed down the wrong path. We have come far enough down the wrong path that we might have to go back before we can go forward again. It will not be easy. We may very well have to put our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor again to get this nation back on the path the Founding Fathers laid out for us. Are we willing to do that? Are we willing to take that chance? It has been said that there has been more inventions created, more opportunities realized, and more dreams reached in the last 236 years then is the previous 5,000 years. It is all because of what the Founding Fathers laid out for us in laying the foundation for the greatest nation to ever be setup.
Make a choice… the path on the left where the destination is captivity and servitude or the path on the right where the destination is liberty and freedom. What do you choose?
I choose liberty and freedom, no matter what the cost.
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