We Are American

I stand to be a proud American even as I watch my elderly neighbor struggle through the rest of her years on barely enough. Her medicines are more expensive now then in previous years and she could just afford them back before the raise in price. She takes time to stand in food bank lines which get longer everyday, and because of the lack of food she has to stand in more then one a week. As ill as she is, she shouldn’t be doing this at all but she is a strong person and does what she needs to do regardless. Yet another American who is someone to live your life after, a good decent person who is caring and loving, even to those who do not always deserve it. She is the embodiment of the American way. She shows us how to live strong and proud in our lives and be helpful even when we can barely help ourselves.
If in this world America must be the only one to go to the aide of others then so be it. If we are to be the first to go to the aide and have to fight to get others to help then so be it. Let us sacrifice so others may have what we are coming to not be able to have, because of this sacrifice we have selflessly made. Let us be the only ones aloud to stand tall and look ourselves in the mirror, or the water that our poor wash themselves in.

Let us be the only ones who can say “I am a sacrifice for the world”. So many of us may end our lives or have our lives ended by the elements. This may not matter in the end, but at least we can say “We help the world have that which it can’t have.” or “We live with our debts and forgive others of theirs.” Let us be proud Americans as our people suffer so others may live. Let our men die in war to help others to freedom. Let our people stand proud to know that above all else even our pagans will end in God’s good grace for all they have suffered. Even the lowest of us will stand before God and be able to say, “I am a sacrifice, as was Jesus, please have me so I may know a way of eternal peace.”

We are American. Even at the end of the day when we want to yell at Bush for all he has done, we can still say thank you for making us what we are. The example that a world should live by, yet turns away from. We are American. There are times we all want to give up. Yet we live the way so many have forsaken. We are American. Through all the heartache and pain of loosing so many friends and family members to wars that are not ours or that is our way of saying “NO longer will we stand for Terrorism.” We stand proud, because we are Americans. We deserve to stand this tall because we represent a kind of life that Jesus taught, the teachings that are so often forgotten. To help those in need. Be kindly to your neighbor. Love others as you love yourself. Yet, the most important rule of all, do unto others as you would have do unto you. We are American. We are America.