Why Americans Are Unhappy

Why Americans Are Unhappy

John LeBoutillier
Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Let’s take some time off from analyzing the 2004 campaigns. It is July, the race is essentially “on hold” until the Democrats have their infomercial/convention up in Boston next week. Then Kerry-Edwards will get a spike of positive energy, their poll ratings will go up a bit and - thankfully - August will arrive and the Olympics will take over our national attention.

It is a good time to look at the ‘bigger picture’- our lives, our future and our country.

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Here is what things look like today in this country: Despite incredible material wealth, wonderful technological advances and instant communication, more people are unhappy - even miserable - than ever before.

How can this be?

How can people - even people with few job or money worries - be more unhappy than their grandparents were back in the Great Depression and World War II?

The answer is simple: They have lost touch with God, with their inner soul - and they have become obsessed with the material world to the exclusion of the more-important spiritual world. In sum, they are missing the best in life.

So many people are so unhappy. The state of romance and marriage has never been worse. Overeating, drinking and drugging has never been higher. Obesity consumes the nation.

What is going on?

People have lost a purpose to their lives.

And they have forgotten - or never knew - the real key to having a great life: asking God for whatever you want or need.

So many people are totally ignorant of this key to life. Maybe Political Correctness has so driven out a real understanding of God’s power or else organized religion is so focused on another agenda that this simple, basic fact is being missed by so many people.

You do not need drugs, booze, fast food, infidelity or money to solve your problems; those items will actually compound your problems.

What works best is a simple daily conversation with God in which you simply ask God to bless you in specific ways you ask for.

And do you know what?

More than you know, God will answer you.

He will help solve your problems - a lot more effectively than Washington ever could.

What has happened in this country since the 1960s is really sickening. Government and PC leftists have run an organized campaign to denigrate God and religion and the special relationship God has with this country.

The liberals are ignorant of something basic in our fabric: One of the key motivators for the early American settlers was their fervent desire to communicate with God directly - something forbidden by European Christianity in the 17th century. It is true: in those days, you were forbidden from even believing God would listen to you! You had to pray through your Church and your priest or minister.

America was unique in every way. Yes, vast natural resources and potential great material wealth awaited the settlers. But none of that would have worked without the Guiding Hand of a God who selected a certain type of man and woman to come and become Americans.

Today’s New Leftists don’t want to hear any of this; they are the ones who have ripped the soul out of this country and tried to replace it with Big Government.

But if America is to survive - and if we are to become again a country of happy people - the American people need to revive their personal relationships with God first. They need to ask God to help them. He will show us the way. He always does.