You hear it everywhere. It's on bumper stickers. It's in presidential inaugurations. It gets spoken like a cheer: Go, Yankees! God Bless America! Yay!
I got a question, here.
Shouldn't He have done it by now?
I mean, why we gotta keep askin'?
I mean, we ask God: hey, bless America. Then God does it. End of story, right?
You'd think.
Many claim God has already done it. America is so blessed, they say.
Fine and dandy! Maybe we should all give ol' God a break. You figure he gets irritated, we keep askin' him to do what he already done did?
See, it makes sense to have God bless a meal. The food gets blessed and then you eat it and then it's gone. New meal, new blessing.
When we ask God to bless a marriage, we don't have to keep asking for that one, do we? No! One and done. Makes sense. Now, blessing a sneeze, that makes no sense at all, but the religious can have a gimme on that.
Blessing the country, though ... I'm sorry, I have to call that one out. My favorites are the bumper stickers and the stitched wall plaques and the like. These are permanent appeals. It's like a little kid: Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom.... Sheesh, give it a rest.
The only thing I can figure is that God blessings are a sort of lottery. You can't win unless you play. So, everybody keeps asking God to bless the USA, and maybe somebody gets lucky and the blessing takes. And all those people who say the country is already blessed are just blowing smoke.
I dunno. Sometimes, these religious types are just plain loopy.
-= Skip =-
still smilin'
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