Peace, Joy Come From Ourselves, Not Big Government

December 24, 2014—Christmas is once again here. I want to wish everybody a happy holiday and a merry Christmas. It’s been a special day in my life because I can remember way back that the emphasis for Christmas was always about peace, joy, and love.

That certainly is what Christianity has taught. My disappointment though so often has been that those same individuals who would agree with everything I’ve just said are also the individuals that tend to promote war, antagonism, and competition.

The kind of thing that I never thought that I was taught from my religious teachings is how we’re supposed to treat our enemies. Anyway I would like to stick with what I was taught as a child that this is a good time to emphasis peace and joy and love because I’ll tell you what, I think the world is not overly saturated with that.

Sometimes what the real prayer has to be is get people to understand what that really means. What peace really means and what love really means. And what joy really means and where it comes from.

Do not believe that those wonderful emotions come from big government. It only comes from ourselves. And I want to, once again, wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Reprinted from Voices of Liberty.