Supreme being, indeed

Jeremiah listened closely. God was speaking. One tends to listen when the big guy speaks, I understand.

God said to him, "Do not pray for these people anymore. When they fast, I will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. Instead, I will devour them with war, famine, and disease."

This week, the United States Supreme Court, which begins each session with prayer, will begin to decide if prayer can still be made before the beginning of legislative sessions.

It is the first time since 1983 that the highest court in the land, but not off the planet remember, will take up legislative prayer. A little town called Greece, N.Y., is the defendant. Seems the town's governing body had the audacity to start with prayer, which some say is against the Constitution. A couple women complained, and the body begin to ask others to open the prayers, including a Jewish layman, a Wiccan priestess, and the chairman of the local Baha'i congregation. That wasn't good enough, either.

So, here we go.

Jeremiah's reaction to the Lord's statement was this: "Night and day my eyes overflow with tears. I cannot stop weeping."

See, what's at stake here is not just prayer before the halls of government, but public displays such as Nativity scenes and such.

What some want to remove is everyone's ability to worship a creator, a God.

This is only a problem, however, if we allow it to be. We have the power and the capability to continue to bring God into the public square if we desire. Nothing on the planet can stop that.

If we remember those moments he changed everything for us, those moments when he whispered glad tidings, when he struck down our foes while we stood by shaking in fear, we will not go quietly into the night.

Jeremiah concluded, "Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, you are the one, O Lord our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for your to help us."

Seems the question for us all is do we believe in the Supreme Court or the Supreme Being? That's a personal decision, it seems. Let it be so.