If Anyone asked

As a teen, I used to hold press conferences to share my opinion with the eager journalists. Of course, none were real, but me. But, this practice turned naturally, into the practice of recording my thoughts in a blog post.

No one ever asks, but I wanted to share a thought/impression I had regarding America.

in seminary there was a video of Moroni, I think it was, who was soo sad about his people, and he was so completely alone, though he was originally part of a great nation who received America as a promised land. and that is exactly what made such a deep impression on me as I read Captain Moroni's letter to Pahoran. 

(I wanted to insert a comment made by Natalie Bradley, years ago, that made an impression. I cannot recall what it was said regarding, or what was asked to illicit such a response, but she mentioned how lonely Moroni always looked all by himself on the top of the temple. I think perhaps God is lonely, too. just because it is lonely on top, and as parents cared and gave their all to children who grow up and fly away, they become lonely, too. Intentional?)

Another thing that was significant was Ezra Taft Benson's call to cleansing of the inner vessel. admittedly, I never actually knew what the heck he was talking about, only that it was important. This week, we read the exact scriptures where the war chiefs were claiming their failures were due to lack of purpose and unity at home. It seems "Out there" to blame failure on anyone but the one who failed, but in the case when external armies were weakened due to needing to fight an internal conflict, it makes sense. So, I could see that failure to deal with internal troubles makes dealing with additional external troubles harder, thus fail.

ok, but in my fictional response to something I read, but did not even want to publicly respond (think of how sacred things are sometimes confused with secret things). I did want to remind any Americans willing to consider it, that our government represents the people, and if the society is corrupt, we will be wiped from the land, that has always been true of this "Promised land".