A year or two after President Barack Obama took the White House by storm and with it any remnants of fiscal sanity and integrity in American leadership, I was frustrated. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my parents, blubbering over how everything our Founding Fathers had fought to secure and establish was being demolished by an administration who didn't care, and by a culture who wasn't aware.
It was at the urging of my family that I started this blog. I truly had no idea what I was doing when I started out, so I just started writing what was in my heart and on my mind. There are a few rough spots--a few times where I was a little narrow minded, a little rough around the edges in my writing. It has been a learning process, though, and I'm not ashamed of that.
Currently, I'm writing for three different conservative blogs. This one, Eagle Forum Collegians, and TheCollegeConservative. Why? Why spend so much time researching, writing, why spend so much time with my face glued to my laptop? Not to sound a little cheesy, but I feel called to do it. I feel called to speak up when others will not; I feel called to spend the time researching and writing about important issues to educate others who simply don't have the time to or don't have the inclination.
I feel called to do this because every day, I'm seeing everything our Founders fought so hard for--freedom--being squashed under the weight of bureaucrats and big government who believe they know best. But relating the Founding Fathers means something to me because I've always been in love with history--perhaps the "founding fathers" don't really mean much to you, and that's okay. Let me put it this way: every day, I'm seeing the freedom, the individual liberty, the principles that my grandfather fought for in the South Pacific in World War II be slowly whittled away; the principles my uncle fought for in Desert Storm and Vietnam.
I'm seeing the principles that have given man the most freedom, most opportunity, most prosperity in history being replaced with principles we know from history don't work. But most importantly, the principles this nation was founded on center around God, the fact that He is Lord of all Creation. The supposed leadership America is struggling to survive under is also doing something I find despicable and unacceptable--trying to replace God with government.
I won't allow that to happen. With this blog and my other blogs, I feel I'm serving God and speaking up for what I know to be on the side of righteousness and truth.
And that's why I write.
