The big guy turns into an owl.

I was taking care of my little brother while my mother was out. It was around 9:30 p.m. and he was getting a little feisty, so I sat him on my lap and asked him if he wanted to watch a video on the computer. He said yes, he wanted to watch the 'big guy turn into an owl'. Translation: He wanted to watch Owl City's To The Sky music video. So I turned it on for him, and he sat perfectly still, humming along to the music. His eyes lit up as he watched the 'big guy turn into an owl'.

That's when I had the random thought: What's the world going to be like when he's my age?

Right now, he's just an innocent, sweet three-year-old. But in ten or eleven years, his mind will get so polluted with all the junk that's in the world. All this talk about war, the end of the world, woman's rights, homosexuality, and so on. It's not the same world I grew up in. And it's only going to get worse.

I try to push this stuff out of my mind, but I get reminded of it everyday. It's on TV, my computer's homepage, the newspaper. It's literally everywhere.

So maybe I'm not supposed to just forget about this stuff. Maybe I'm supposed to do something about it. I try not to get involved in politics because, one, it just shows how screwed-up this world is and, two, apparently I don't understand half of it.

America is the land of dreams. It's also the land of failures.

America is the land of opportunity. It's also the land of 'sit-down-and-shut-up'.

America is the land of the brave. It's also the land of the cowards.

America is the land of the free. It also has many people behind bars.

Who gets to decide what right or wrong? The president? A judge? What about God? Have we completely shut him out? The Founding Fathers grounded faith of God into this amazing land, and not a day goes by where somebody doesn't use his name in vain. We do it almost without thinking about it, it's disgusting how easily it comes out of our mouths.

God set the stars in place and know them each by name. He know how many hairs are on your head. He separated light and darkness, land and water. Angels exalt him, they worship him day and night. He sent his one and only son to die so we could have the chance to live with him for eternity in heaven.

So why aren't we giving our all for him?

I can imagine in about two-hundred years from now, some kids will be sitting in a classroom and a teacher will ask, "Does anyone remember The United States of America?" One kid raises his hand and says, "I do. America started out as a great country, greater then any country before. It was young and free, and many people expected an amazing future for America. But after only a couple hundred years, the country started to fall apart because everyone thought that their beliefs were the right ones, and they had no faith in God."

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, so that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.

John 3:16-21