I Gave Up What I Can't Keep

Calamity Is A Blessing When It Brings One To God. --- Hadassah

We All Wanted What We Wanted, And When The Lord Fulfilled His Purpose Rather Than Ours, We Struck Out Against Him. In Anger. In Disappointment. Yet, It Is God's Will That Prevails.

Can You See Air You Breathe? Can You See The Force That Moves The Tides Or Changes The Seasons Or Sends The Birds To A Winter Haven?" Her Eyes Welled. "can Rome With All Its Knowledge Be So Foolish? Oh Marcus, You Can't Carve God In Stone. You Can't Limit Him To A Temple. You Can't Imprison Him On A Mountaintop. Heaven Is His Throne; Earth, His Footstool. Everything You See Is His. Empires Will Rise And Empires Will Fall. Only God Prevails.

As Gentle A Man As He Was, As Tender As Was His Heart, There Was Nothing Weak About Michael Hosea. He Was The Strongest-minded Man Joseph Had Ever Met. A Man Like Noah. A Man Like The Shepherd-king David. A Man After God's Own Heart.

Rome Tolerated Every Abominable Practice, Embraced Every Foul Idea In The Name Of Freedom And The Rights Of The Common Man. Citizens No Longer Carried On Deviant Behavior In Private, But Pridefully Displayed It In Public. It Was Those With Moral Values Who Could No Longer Freely Walk In A Public Park Without Having To Witness A Revolting Display. What Happened To The Public Censors Who Protected The Majority Of Citizenry From Moral Decadence? Did Freedom Have To Mean Abolishing Common Decency? Did Freedom Mean Anyone Could Do Anything They Wanted Anytime They Wanted, Without Consequences?