America Has Some Good People

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The media doesn't focus on regular, good as gold, godly people that much....but America has some awesome people.  The world is filled with good people.

French Histgorian: Alexis de Tocqueville said, "America is great because she is good.  If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."  Glenn Beck was talking about this today on his program.  America is good because America has some good people.  America will remain great as long as the people are good....

The good people go unnoticed for the most part...until disaster strikes.  Then you see them rise to the occasion and show the world what Americans are made of.  Goodness.  Individuals are giving of themselves because they have a heart to help. 

Teens are helping:  Seventeen-year-old Elliott Kersh is helping his father gather what's left from their house in Joplin, Mo.   "There was this lady I saw bent over, she got off work at the mall, and couldn't come home in time," said Elliott. "But her husband and two sons had taken shelter in the basement which was collapsed in and I had to pull out, I had to pull out her dead husband and her two sons, which were hardly identifiable at the time, but, I, I had to pull those out for her."  "I don't know what I would have done if I was her, because that's your whole family," he added.  Every day since, he has pressed his dad to let him get out here and help.

We started pulling people out of houses, and covering up bodies and stuff, and just doing what we could to help people," said Mitchell, 18.

"Joplin was gone," said Geordan Green, also 18. "I didn't know what to do except to help people." In trying to make their way through all of this, to find something, anything good, many are discovering that the "good," is in them.   "Seeing people that are helpless just hurts you," said Geordan. "And I knew if I felt that way, I'd want people to care about me. So I don't want to be a selfish person anymore."

Elliott chanced upon a student in a grocery store, someone he'd often fought in school.   "But we about broke down crying in Food 4 Less when we were trying to get some ice," he said. "When we saw each other, we were just so happy to see each other, it was just so comforting."

Churches are helping: Pastor John Swadley was still huddled in the crawl space under his house when he began forming the plan for Forest Park Baptist Church’s response to the tornado...Forest Park is now at the heart of the national relief effort for Joplin. The church is coordinating food, volunteer assignments and donations. 

“We are just helping people like Jesus would,” Swadley said. “We are being the church and offering help, hope and healing.”    The church’s “bus barn” storage facility has been designated the receiving and staging area for donated items and where supplies such as diapers, toothpaste and soap are distributed. Offers of help have been pouring in from throughout the country. 

"I’m really proud of my Heavenly Father and how He is using us for His work,” Swadley said.  “When it says in the Bible to show hospitality, our people have stepped up and done that beautifully to help each other and their friends and Sunday School classes,” Swadley said.

“We’re going to try to construct a worship service where everyone can experience God’s presence in a way so that they leave stronger than they came,” he said.

There are good people from every direction of the country that are rushing to the rescue.  I can't begin to list all of them here.  Others are involved in donations - others are on their knees in prayer.   In time of need, America knows how to step up to the plate - not only to the disasters around the world, but on our home front.

There are good people in America.  God uses them daily.  It just doesn't make the headlines in the news. 

Stories that will bring tears to our eyes are yet come out of Joplin, no doubt.  If the enemy thinks he is destroying us with crisis after crisis, he just doesn't fully realize the stamina and steadfastness of American people.  We were raised by and large as a christian nation and those roots run deep.  Even folks who admittedly aren't living a christian life, still stand for decency in our country.  Most haven't veered far from their roots.

I still say, God bless the USA.  And we have some mighty good folks in our country!
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