What If There Was No America?

Day 10,101
10:12 p.m.

God bless America?  I’ve heard it said over and over that America was founded on Christian principles and the Constitution and our money make mention of God, however, according to the bible, Christians are not supposed to rebel against the government.  Romans 13:1 says “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”

Don’t get me wrong.  I love being an American.  I love the freedom, the quality of life, and the rights; and if I were drafted, I would serve in the military.  But this lead me to wonder what America would be like if it had never rebelled against Britain.

For better or for worse?  Maybe it would be worse.  Maybe we’d still be paying high taxes and be treated like second class citizens.  Or maybe it would be better.  The American Revolution and Ghandi in India influenced British policy to eventually let Canada and Australia have their independence without a struggle.  So if the American Revolution never occurred, maybe Ghandi would be subdued by a more powerful Britain, and maybe the United Kingdom would be a super powerful nation, even more powerful than America is today!  It would include the current United States, Canada, Australia, Britain, Ireland, and India!  Our population would be greater than China’s!  We would be unstoppable!  We would dominate world trade and politics!  Other nations would cower before us!  The possibilities are endless!  But then again, God only knows what would’ve happened.

I used to daydream a lot.  I used to wish I could go back in time and correct mistakes I’ve made in my life.  But I finally realized that wishing you could change the past is all a waste of time, because you can’t.  And I’ve even come to think that my past is realistically the best past I could’ve had.  Sure there’ve been mistakes, but those mistakes have taught me lessons, and God is best at making lemonade out of lemons.  He always has silver linings in the dark clouds.  Besides, my life isn’t over yet so maybe greater things are yet to come from those mistakes then I forsee.

Gimme My Keys!

Day 10,098
12:04 p.m.

New posts every Monday.  I’ve decided to write new posts every Monday, because the quality of the posts will be lower if I write them everyday.  So I’ll post something new sometime during Sunday so that it will be up by Monday.

Gimme my keys!  Now, I will regale you with a tale that happened just last month.  I was walking home from the 7-11 by my house one hot June day.  I cut through the apartment complex on my way home.

          As I’m walking down the sidewalk, I hear some yelling up ahead.  A black woman in a car is yelling at a black man who’s sitting down on one of those metal boxes that says Las Vegas Valley Water District on it.  I keep listening and watching as I walk closer.  I can tell that they’re having a lovers’ quarrel.

          Next, the woman takes a water bottle and throws it at him, but it hits the metal box, misses him, and comes to a rest by his foot.  The man is not disturbed at all.  He doesn’t even look her way.  I think that is awesome, and I – being the silly person that I am – walk up to him for a high-five.  He gives me a low five and I’m chuckling.

          The woman looks at me and says “You think this is funny mother fucker!?”  I just put up my hands and back away, but I continue to watch from a hallway about 15 feet away.  The man had been living with the woman and her mom.  But I guess they broke up so now she wants him out.  However, I guess he’s still paying rent and her mom wants to keep him as a tenant.  The woman keeps demanding that he give her back the keys to the apartment, but he won’t.  Finally, after she keeps asking for her keys several times, he says “Take me to court.  If you want me out, take me to court.”

          Next the woman gets out of her car and opens the back door.  She pulls out a wooden board with a nail at the end of it!  She says “Mother fucker you better gimme my keys!”  She drags the board over to where he’s sitting.  But this guy doesn’t lose his cool!  He just sits there and ignores her!  I am so impressed!

          So she gets back in her car and drives away, so I think she’s gone.  But just a few moments later she comes back in her car.  She keeps saying “GIMME MY KEYS!”  But he doesn’t even look at her and just shakes his head no.  Then she gets in her car and drives around the corner of the building so we don’t see her anymore.  Then a few moments later, she’s standing at the corner of the building and she asks the man if he would come so she can talk to him.  He says “How do I know you don’t have a stick behind your back?”  Then she leaves for good.

Horniness

10:18 a.m.
Day 10,097

Oh!  Me so horny.  Lately I’ve been feeling horny.  For example, I visited Sunrise Hospital two days ago, and there was this blonde nurse walking across the parking lot.  I won’t go into further detail, but suffice it to say, she was hot.

          Then, I drove a little further, and there was this even hotter young blonde woman driving a black Mercedes.  I don’t know how Jesus did it, but I’m asking for His help because … damn!  There’s a lot of hot women out there.

Patience

7:42 p.m.
Day 10,096

Tribulation.  Romans 5:3 says “… we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”  This morning I prayed for patience and about an hour later I got tribulation.  Part of the tread on the tire on my sister’s car came off on the freeway.  Coincidence?  Maybe.  But I have enough patience for now.

Adventure.  It was a mini-adventure.  I got to jog on the freeway and then walk to a bus stop and take the bus home.  Oh, the reason I left the car on the freeway is because I didn’t have a spare.  I failed to buy a replacement after the last time I needed to change a tire.

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