Honest Bargains

My 5 Big Tall Christmas Wishes to Change the World

Posted December 2nd, 2008 by admin

On Nov. 30, Robert Garcia announced a little blog tag contest that looks very interesting and inspiring. I was tagged by my son, Brian Mark, who set the mark quite high for an inspiring wish list. But here goes.

My 1st wish: Peace in our families. Our Nebraska legislature a while back passed a Safe Haven Law. The intent was great - allow babies who were unwanted to be dropped off at a hospital without penalty, rather than having them dumped in a garbage can or left in a Rest Stop restroom somewhere. However, they failed to specify “babies.” So people were driving many hours bringing teenagers hundreds of miles from several states away to drop them off at Nebraska hospitals claiming they could no longer take care of them. One father dropped off seven children. It deeply saddens me to think what life must be like for families like this, and all the others where abuse and neglect and ongoing conflict are a way of life. Peace in families is a huge need, and would be my 1st Christmas wish. That would help to bring about my 2nd wish.

2nd wish: Peace in our communities. I can’t help but think that much of the cause of the robberies, assaults, and murders in our local communities is brought about by unhappiness in families. If someone is unhappy at home, it seems only natural that they will be unhappy elsewhere. Even in early gradeschool, children have learned that the way to solve problems is to fight. That breaks my heart. Smaller communities, especially, used to be considered a safe place to live. That has changed, and I really don’t like the prospects for what my grandchildren will have to live with some day given the direction we are headed. We need peace in our communities, which would certainly help with my 3rd wish.

3rd wish: Peace among nations. I grew up in the time when people were scared of Nuclear War. People talked about building bomb shelters, and buildings were marked if they had a bomb shelter. Then things calmed down a bit, at least until 9/11. Now the threat seems to be growing again. We are being warned of a possible terrorist nuclear attack in the U.S. within the next few years. We are all beginning to live a little on edge, wondering when and where the next attack will be. We are living in barbaric times only with more sofisticated weapons and the ability to attack anwhere in the world, not just the village across the valley. I don’t like living scared. I would like to see our nations at peace.

Well, lest everyone thinks I’m trying to write a speech for the Miss America pagant, I’ll change my direction.

4th wish: Success for Brian Mark’s Church website venture. This wish is a little selfish, because I am going to be helping him with some of the leg work on this project. I believe that the peace I talked about in my first three wishes can only come when the peace of God resides in our hearts. Helping people find a church in their communities where they feel at home and can find God’s peace for their lives will go a long way to bringing peace in their families and communities.

5th wish: An end to our recession/depression. I remember my grandfather talking about the great depression, and how tough times were back then. I don’t want us to get to that again. I am retired, and as I watch my retirement fund shrink smaller and smaller every week, my only comfort is that we’re all in the same boat. Somehow we’ll make it, because God will provide. I pray that the leaders of our country will use the wisdom God has given them to find a good solution to the financial mess we’re in. 

There you have it - my big tall Chrismas wishes. Now as part of the rules, I get to tag someone. I’ll tag David Brown at neo1seo.com. If you want to join in without waiting for a tag, you certainly can. Make your Christmas wish list.

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