I recently attended the Patriotic service held at the Marriott Center on BYU campus. Let me tell you it was a little strange... I was going expecting something like the usual YSA firesides we have often, but found myself listening to loud, patriotic, marching band music, a Jewish man pray, a famous opera singer perform the national anthem among other pieces, and a few patriotic speeches.
Among these cultural events I was given the opportunity to listen to a man whom I have become quite fond of listening to. His name is Glenn Beck. This is one of those people who tells the world the way things are without fear of persecution or mocking. He knows he could lose his job at any moment for the things he says, but trusts so fully in God, he doesn't care what the world does to him. He is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (sometimes more commonly known as LDS or Mormons) and allows his religion to be apart of his everyday life.
When this man spoke, though the meeting was one of patriotism and not religion, he brought to the attention of all in attendance that those two are not really ever, separated. It is because of God we have this land; it is because of God we have the freedoms we do; it is because of God we are such a powerful and blessed nation. Our government can do all they want to destroy the idea of God in our lives, and with it will come the utter destruction of our country, but we must never let that belief and devotion to the Almighty ever dwindle.
WE THE PEOPLE must take charge, WE THE PEOPLE must put hope back into the heart of this nation, and WE THE PEOPLE must fight to preserve the truths and values of this sacred land.
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