We Need to Make Our Voices Heard

I've got a very good friend, with whom I served in the church when we lived in Ogden, Utah, who entered the "blogosphere" to share thoughts and feelings about the great United States of America. He feels that it is a land that needs to be preserved by people who are trying to be good, strong, citizens. Those people, imperfect as they may be, need to stand up and speak out against the evil permeating our culture at every turn, and affect government policy as far as they are able. He is now the bishop (like a Priest in a catholic congregation) up there now. I have a lot of admiration for him and what he is trying to accomplish. He has inspired me to be, as Gandhi once said, "the change [I] wish to see in the world." His name is Ken Coman. I've linked to his blog if you want to take a look.

I'm one of those imperfect people who is not going to stand idly by and allow wicked men and women lay waste to this great country. I don't promise this blog will only stay on that theme of preservation, but I hope to evoke it often.

Who am I, and why would you care what I have to say?

Those are very good questions. I am just like most people on this earth. My name is Ethan Rux Jolley. I care about making life happy for myself and those I love. I care about life being a happy one for people I haven't even met (and whom I hope I will come to love). I want a safe, clean place for my children, and their children and children's children, to grow up. I want a country that is goverened justly by people who want the same thing for their families. If they don't, I want a government that at least knows its place. I want a government that knows it governs by my consent, and yours, and that of your neighbor.

Why is this so important to me? Because I believe in the God-given liberty all men, women, girls, and boys should enjoy. This liberty is so precious to me. It was paid for by the blood not only of men, but of God, even Jesus Christ. He gave us this precious gift. It is because of His great and eternal sacrifice that you and I have the blessings which we have, the greatest being that we can choose to follow good or evil.

I choose good.

I don't know if anybody is ever going to read these posts. I might be writing them for my own benefit. It is good for a man to know where he stands. And publishing it somehow makes it more official.

I have a family. My wife, Erin, and I care for three beautiful souls: Emily, age six, Greta, age 5, and Jase, age 3. My sweet wife has been chronicaling our life with another blog, also linked to on this page. I invite you to see that if you wish.

I invite you, dear reader, to make comments if you wish to the ideas posted here. Feel free to agree or disagree. I would be interested to know your thoughts.