We're back!!! Who I am

It has been a long time since I posted a blog - I just did not feel inspired to do so.
After joining Facebook, I occasionally would respond to a post or even be inspired to post something in reply - often reacting and sometimes debating.
I don't want to do that.
What I really want is to offer some inspired thoughts that are triggered by current events, concerns for family, church family, and once in a while for society in general.
I don't want to be a grumpy old man - though I will turn 70 in a few months; and to many people, that is old.
I am a conservative Christian.  I believe the world was created by an infinite yet personal loving God who grieves for the state it is in today; and for the state it has been in since the fall of man.  I don't know how He did it; and I don't believe that we can know how.  (He even tells us that His ways are not our ways.  I believe Him and not someone who claims to understand Him or His creation.)
I don't believe the world is any worse (or better) overall today than it was when I was a child.
I believe that every generation has its own trials; and while physically things may be better; evil is still around trying to destroy the goodness that was intended.
I don't feel any guilt for the actions or failings of my ancestors just as I do not feel guilty for the failings of my neighbors.  I feel guilty only for my own faults and failings - and I try to correct them.
I believe that the best sermons are those that are lived; not those that are preached.
I believe in acting kindly towards all mankind - whether I agree with their beliefs or not.  Kindness does not mean that I affirm either actively or passively behavior that is harmful to self or to others; and this includes morally harmful behavior.
I still believe in the American form of government; but I am not convinced that we have the right people in government - in either party.
I believe that the constitutional interpretation of separation of power between church and state has been abusively interpreted to mean separation of all religion from state - with the effect of moral decay.
I believe that there is a absolute code of right and wrong that a vast majority can ascribe to and that code should limit the intrusion of government into our lives.
I believe that the three branches of government should be limited by criminal law to fulfilling ONLY their prescribed roles in the constitution.
Does that make me a radical or just a reasonable person that believes the men who were not trying to get re-elected wrote the constitution to protect us all whereas the elected officials and bureaucrats of today have a conflict of interest in governing which includes continuing in the positions of power?
Finally; I believe that we all ought to have to memorize the preamble to the Constitution and affirm (under oath) our allegiance to the entire constitution in order to vote. If we believe it should change; then we should change it in a constitutional way.  If you don't like the rights and privileges and limitations offered by it; then I think you should go where you find the privileges, limitations, and protections you want.