THINGS WORTH DYING FOR

Meaghan Mobbs, wrote:

“We are entering our 250th year as a nation. That anniversary demands something of us beyond celebration. It demands reckoning and then it demands recommitment.
The recommitment begins with honesty: that we live in the greatest country on earth and that great things will be demanded of us because of it. That our Judeo-Christian foundation is not a relic to be embarrassed about, but a living root system without which this tree does not stand. Freedom has never been free. The people who told you otherwise were either being naive, selling something, or being paid by one of our enemies to convince you of it.

And then it demands faith. Not faith as sentiment or as a bumper sticker. Faith as the thing that steadies you when the demand is real and the cost is clear, and you choose to pay it anyway because you know, in a place deeper than strategy or politics or policy, that some things are worth it.
Peace in the face of fear is what faith is for. It is not a promise that nothing terrible will happen. It is the assurance that nothing terrible is the end of the story.”
(Part of an article in Tablet Magazine)

(Meaghan Mobbs, PhD, is an experienced nongovernmental, policy, and political leader, widely published on topics related to national security, defense, and psychological impacts of war. A graduate of West Point, she holds a master’s degree in forensic psychology from George Washington University and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University. She is a former paratrooper and combat veteran. A wife and mother of two.)

“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Jesus