My daughter found an online "bumper sticker" for her myspace that read that, I'll take God and guns, you can have Obama, I laughed. I laughed and then I suddenly realized it was slightly funny simply because it was true. Growing up Christian, I was always told that with God on my side I could not fail. I believed it as much then as I do today. I live my life always thinking if the choices I am making would indeed make the Lord happy. Growing up, what I like to call, true blue American, I have always believed in my right and possibly my responsibility to defend myself, family and country. I learned how to handle a firearm, I am comfortable handling and using a firearm. My husband and I have made it a point to make sure our children are not only knowledgeable but comfortable as well, handling safely, a firearm. It is in fact our responsibility to do so. I have noticed that regrettably, since our recent move we have not been doing that as much as I would like. Something I should remedy. All of which brings me to an interesting question, would I put a fire arm in my hand to defend a way of life that I honestly believe to be vital? Would I then be willing to put one in the hands of my teenage daughters, God forbid times came to that? I know the answers to both those questions to be yes. Then I look down my street and wonder who of my neighbors would stand with me? Who in this city I now reside would stand with me? When November comes and we are standing in the voting booth, who will ask themselves those very questions? Shouldn't we all be? A great man once said that freedom wasn't a right you were born with, it is something fought for. Something that is worth every sacrifice. How many of us have forgotten that fact? How many of us get up in the morning and worry about what the traffic is going to be like, or if the kids will be ready in time for school? When what we really should be doing is telling our children to pray. To listen to their hearts and be the people they know they can be. We should kiss our husbands and wives and say I love you, and mean it. Our way of life is being threatened, and I don't know who is to blame any more. Some say it started when women tried so hard to be just like men and men feared being men and started “embracing” their feminine sides. Some say it started when children started having children. After all how can one teach pride, honor, and respect when they are far too young to understand it themselves? Some say we started grabbing on to excuses and stopped taking responsibility for our own actions. We no longer get held accountable for the things we do. There is always some one else worth blaming and thus there are no consequences. I don't know what happened, I know that one day I realized we were headed to hell in the proverbial hand basket and the brakes stopped working. Am I alone in realizing this? Are there people out there that still believe that honor and respect are the building blocks of a society worth fighting for? I hear the polls, McCain up McCain down, and I wonder what are people thinking. I hear my fellow Americans express their fears and haunts and it's the same thing over and over again. Are morals like chivalry dying? I watch my daughters and worry about the world they are readying to enter. What is in store for them as women, as Christians? I watch my young boys play and wonder am I doing enough to counter act what is flying at them from every other source? What kind of men will they be? All elections are important, all voices are important. But never so much as now, because this is OUR now. This is OUR time. Who will be the representative of your voice in the near future? What will you prove you stand for? So, as I sit here pondering a comical phrase, and I feel the complete heaviness of its humor, I will take God and guns, and I pray that you will too. Leave Obama for a time beyond this, leave his lack of morals, his disregard for life, his hatred and anger and choose to embrace a life that would make you proud if you were brave enough to look your soul in the eyes.