God and Country: Without God There is No Country: Red Wave

Dear Delana,  Growing up, my dad told me every single day, “You don’t complain about things, you fix them.”  My dad was the hardest worker that I knew. He led by example and action. After he passed, I made the decision to be like my dad: a person of words and of action, because both matter. That’s why I ran for office. I am committed to always serving the people of South Dakota with both words and action. I will do what I say, and I will always tell you what I’m doing.  We learn important lessons from our fathers. My dad's lessons still resonate with me today. Our Founding Fathers taught us many such lessons. They taught us that freedom is a cause worth fighting for. "Give me liberty or give me death," Patrick Henry famously said. So many of the brave men who followed George Washington into battle died in the pursuit of that same liberty.    Help Republicans retake Congress and save America. >> It's easy to forget that before America's Founding, liberty wasn't widely recognized. The rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" that Thomas Jefferson wrote about were a controversial idea at the time. America was the first nation built around those rights. The lessons that we learn from our fathers don't become less important just because we grow older. And the ideals laid out by our Founding Fathers are no less true in a 21st Century America. As we see threats to those ideals, to American freedom, we need to fight for them with the same vigor as Patrick Henry and the same resolve as George Washington.      Will you help us win back our Republican majority? >>   We must fight for the future of our nation. Americans have no faith in Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. But we have not lost faith in ourselves. We will defend American values, rights, and freedoms. We will not let President Biden ruin this great country.  We can retake our Republican majority in November, but we need your help. Will you join me in this fight to save our great country?  Note: If you've saved your payment information, your donation will go through immediately.    Please contribute $25 RIGHT NOW to help Republicans take back the House and Senate and save America from the Democrats’ destructive agenda. >> Thank you, Kristi Noem   Governor of South Dakota      CONTRIBUTE NOW >> Dear Delana, Thank you for your enthusiastic response to our new tagline and to the emails I’ve sent explaining it. I’m grateful for so many like-minded partners who long to see His Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven! Today I want to share the third part of our tagline: Restore hope. I believe hope is our birthright. Let me explain. Dear Delana, Thank you for your enthusiastic response to our new tagline and to the emails I’ve sent explaining it. I’m grateful for so many like-minded partners who long to see His Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven! Today I want to share about the third part of our tagline: Restore hope. I believe hope is our birthright. Let me explain. Ecclesiastes 3:11 tells us that God has “set eternity in the human heart.” We all have an innate sense that we were made for more than this present world. And this truth produces hope! By definition, hope looks ahead. You can see it in the eyes of little children—we’re born knowing there is good on the horizon. That hope persists for some longer than for others. This fallen world has a way of dimming it. We grapple with our mistakes and with the pain of being sinned against. Circumstances like poverty, abuse, and addiction can overshadow eager expectation for the future. And when situations like these have burdened a family for generations, it can be hard to see a way forward at all. Sometimes bad choices lead to prison, where many men and women abandon hope altogether. The very architecture and culture of prison extinguish hope. Isolation abounds. There is little beauty, and there are few choices. Often, relationships are frayed beyond repair, the door to a career seems forever closed, and surviving day to day is the only goal. Life—literally and figuratively—looks bleak. The same is true for families with an incarcerated loved one. Prison seems like yet another dead end—one with no escape route. Knowing that addiction and violence can be part of prison life, relatives worry that their loved one is being driven into even deeper darkness. Kids miss the familiar voice of that person who was supposed to always be there. But we don’t think prison has to be the end of hope’s story. In fact, at Prison Fellowship, we know that prison can be the very place hope springs to life. Why? First, because of the Gospel. As I mentioned in my last email, when the mercy of God touches sinful people, they are redeemed. And the outworking of that redemption is hope. When someone understands that they are known and loved by God, that their sins have been forgiven and that they are free to walk a new way—suddenly, there is a reason to live. The future is no longer bleak but beautiful. This verse is a favorite of many believers: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” —Jer. 29:11 Restoring hope is part of God’s master plan for His people, and we love being a part of it. As we speak hope to men and women behind bars, we paint a picture of new possibilities—and we show the pathway to get there. We cast a vision for being different, appealing that isolation, conflict, and self-hatred don’t have to characterize their lives. We walk beside them, modeling a new way to live. And we teach the principles and practices that will help them reflect God’s glory in the world. The result: Addictions are broken. Relationships are repaired. As Paul writes in Romans 5:5, hope does not disappoint us. Fathers and mothers see their wayward children walking in freedom and purpose. Spouses find healing for their marriages. And children experience the return of the stability that comes from having a parent invested in their wellbeing—even if that parent is still behind bars. Another way we seek to restore hope is by helping to open doors for men and women who have repaid their debt to society. Despite radically changing while incarcerated—and continuing to become ever better versions of themselves as they reengage their communities—former prisoners often return to a world of barriers. At Prison Fellowship, we seek to remove these hurdles so that returning citizens can see their hopes realized: to earn an honest living, to support their families and communities, to live into their unique callings every day. Even when hope is gone, in Christ, it is not unrecoverable. Thank you for partnering with us as we proclaim, model, and advocate for men and women who want to start over and walk a brand-new path. I’m grateful you have joined me on this journey of exploring our new tagline. As we seek justice, love mercy, and restore hope, Prison Fellowship continues to come alongside prisoners, their families, and those impacted by incarceration. The words may be new, but the mission we’ve been committed to for 45 years is unchanged. Thank you for being our partners in this wonderful calling.     Paid for by the Republican National Committee Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. www.GOP.com You are receiving this email at delanaforsyth@gmail.com Republican National Committee (RNC), 310 1st Street SE Washington, DC, 20003-1885, US We believe this is an important way to reach our grassroots supporters with the most up-to-date information regarding the efforts of the Republican Party. Thank you for joining our movement. 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