My Pledge to Become Politically Active

Before I post this I should warn those of you who might be easily offended at my conservative tendencies that I do listen to Glenn Beck.  I do not blindly follow whatever he says but I listen to him and try to glean from him what I can.  While visiting his website today I came across his "40 days and 40 nights pledge."  This pledge stuck me as an incredible starting point for becoming politically active, first I must make sure I set things right in my life and only then will I be able to look outside myself.  I also loved this pledge because I know that it will do nothing but improve my life even if I don't ever take it beyond myself. The pledge is as follows...

"For the next 40 days and 40 nights, I pledge...I COVENANT to practice faith, hope and charity by doing these things.

First...faith. I will pray on my knees every night for the next 40 nights...starting TONIGHT. Pray for guidance, inspiration, peace...pray for the leaders of our country. Pray for their safety, and that they will receive wisdom. I will re-establish my relationship with God.

Hope...hope comes from truth. You can't have hope based on lies. If you go to the doctor and you're in the early stages of cancer, but the doctor tells you that you just have the sniffles...that's false hope, and it won't help you, in fact, it would kill you. So, we have to have honesty, to have real hope. So, I will stop all lies for the next 40 days. That includes lying to myself. I will establish a pattern of honesty and make it become habitual. I will question with boldness...everything...even the things Glenn Beck tells you every night...I will do my own research...and then pray for my own confirmation on the things I have learned. I will find out what is true in my life. 

And third...I will have charity. Charity begins at home. I will do something kind for every member of my family at least once a week. I will write it down, and then do it. Also, I pledge to take notice of how blessed I really am. I live in the greatest country the world has ever known...and even the least prosperous among us, are among the wealthiest people in the world...I will be grateful" [pledge taken from http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/39452/].

I should make another comment here, this pledge is supposed to be in preperation for the 8-28 Restoring Honor rally in Washington D.C. that Glenn is putting on.  I know there are less than 40 days and 40 nights before 8-28 but no matter when we start this pledge it will improve our lives if we take it seriously.  

On questioning with boldness like is mentioned in the pledge, I try to read all the major news networks and a few additional sources to get a broad view of what is going on and what the varying opinions are and then I use the spirit to try and come to my own conclusions.  I will admit that after time and time again of finding out that the things I here from Glenn Beck are true and seeing time and time again those who attack him never attacking him with facts but only attacking him personally I tend to put a little more trust in and weight to the things I here from him.  I still, however, try and get a broad view every day.

So, I started day number one of the 40 days and 40 nights pledge tonight and will move forward day by day.