America not only has a glorious past but also has a limitless future.  America’s future became secure as great men of God wrote into existence our nation’s governing documents that created not only our nation but also granted us our freedoms.  As America became founded on the great Biblical principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, sanctity of life, and a limited role of the federal government, her people became a moral people deeply rooted in the Christian faith.  With this intense loyalty to Jesus Christ wrought an unparalleled patriotism for a nation that quickly became a beacon of liberty for all who had the will and strength to reach her shores. 

Our Founding Fathers secured our freedoms as they proclaimed and clarified that our rights as American citizens are granted by God Almighty, and God alone.  In establishing our Constitutional Republic, our Founding Fathers knew that once the federal government began to surpass their constitutional obligations, the life of the American would decay.  In maintaining our liberties that were granted to all Americans, our nation became governed by a rule of law, a law that was founded upon Biblical law.  In maximizing the individual’s freedom and liberty, man’s greatness generated not only great ideas but also a great nation built on those ideas. 

The American’s creativity, ingenuity, grit and hard work that always thrive within a free market system developed a soaring economy that led to the strengthening of the American family.  As our nation’s greatness was passed down to our ensuing generations through the parental leadership of the mother and father, America’s future was always to be promising.  Values such as duty, honor, sacrifice, strength, and courage embodied the American as he not only found a way to pursue his God given abilities, but also found a way to ensure that those liberties remained a privilege for his children and his grandchildren. 

It was within the great environment of the family unit that strong leaders were born and produced.  It was through the guidance and direction of committed mothers and fathers that the courage of the soldier was formed, that the calling of the pastor was heard, and that the mind of the statesman was raised.  The American hero was born of the leadership that developed from the sense of calling that every American has on their life.  But greatness is not realized simply from the unique essence that is being American, but by seizing the opportunities that are afforded us through those liberties to achieve the impossible, to reach the unreachable, and to attain the unattainable.        

Greatness still pursues America to this day.  Americans are still born with that innate sense of duty, honor and greatness that led our Founding Fathers to sacrifice all they had to create this new nation.  It is that longing for freedom, that sense of loyalty to God who has upheld our nation, and the unwavering devotion to the principles and ideas that bore a great nation which continues to drive Americans.  But we must quickly realize that our American duty becomes not only a privilege, but a responsibility, a responsibility that must be shared and assumed among all of her people.  Through this shared responsibility, her people will once again maintain and strengthen this great beacon of liberty for all who are blessed with the privilege and duty of being American.