I was unable to attend Glen Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington D.C., but I know readers of my column who did. I anxiously await their first hand accounts. Our nation was established by divine providence, and she is on the verge of a spiritual awakening. Progressives will try to snuff this movement because anything which rightfully glorifies God similarly lessens the importance of government. To the left, all worship is to be directed to the Department of Happiness in Washington D.C., but while collectivists were busy drugging the masses with freebies, the once-quiet majority has come alive.

Faith, hope and charity, the themes of Beck’s rally, are an enigma to progressives. It is charity which confuses them most because they feel most charitable when they reach into your wallet and redistribute your money to anyone they feel is in greater need. Progressives gained control of Congress in 2006 and because their charitable mood quickly exhausted your money, they became charitable with the future earnings of your grandchildren. The national debt was $8.2 trillion in 2006 and is $13.3 trillion today. Since progressives just don’t understand true charity, let me explain it as demonstrated by the actions of a friend of mine named Tim.

I’ve mentioned Tim before and in real life he is a John Deere representative. He grew up a Christian farm boy in Missouri and he epitomizes the values found in each of the one million patriots standing around the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. A while back, Tim was on a sales call in Culbertson, Montana. He had just finished lunch and was walking down the sidewalk when he spotted a $50 bill in the gutter. (Apparently the energy economy in eastern Montana is so robust fifty dollar bills blow around like the infamous tumbleweeds in old western movies.) He picked it up and guess what he did? Tim hunted up the address of the Culbertson Methodist Church and mailed the fifty to them. That is charity, first fruits and tithing all rolled together and because America is filled with millions of people like Tim, she will survive.

Last Thursday I spoke at the Rosebud County Tea Party Patriots meeting in Forsyth. It was my 15th Tea Party of the year. You cannot comprehend the boost I feel when I stand before a room of patriots uniting to restore our country. At every rally there are people from every walk of life; from cowboy to carpenter, teacher to trophy wife and union laborer to small businessman. More than anything else, they want government to leave them alone. This drives progressives insane. “Don’t they understand our programs will help them?” They ponder amongst themselves. “With enough tax dollars we could collectively save everyone from poverty and sickness…of course less a small handling fee to cover administrative costs like executive green fees.”

At our nation’s founding, John Adams warned us “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” For 80 years progressives have attempted to remove God as the controlling authority of our lives and He is banned from schools and many government buildings. They are wrong. Through divine providence we will once again be the shining light of liberty to the worlds’ oppressed. America’s restoration begins today, will you help us?