The CBC did a social experiment a few months ago on Facebook called "The Great Canadian Wishlist".
The Top 5 goes as:
1) Abolish Abortion in Canada
2) I wish that Canada would remain Pro Choice
3) Restore the Traditional Definition of Marriage
4) For a spiritual revival in our nation
5) I wish that tuition fees would be either lowered or eliminated
I am Pro Life, but 4) is what touched me the most and resembled my feelings the most.
$1:
You and me. Let's wish for a revival in Canada! =)
Canada was once a more spiritually active nation than even the United States. Four decades of secularization have changed the face of this country.
Although over 70 percent of Canadians still claim to be Christians today, many of them are inactive in their beliefs. Less than half of them are actively involved in a church or other spiritual community.
This is a call, not to bring Canada back into the past, but a forward-looking call into a future where Christians stand up for their beliefs and show who they are without fear!
We believe that it is time for this generation to step up, get out of our comfort zones and pray together for a spiritual revival in Canada from sea to sea to sea!
2 Chronicles 7:14:
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
http://hs.facebook.com/sgroup/subgroup. ... 2350227956The creator of the wish wrote this on the CBC website:
$1:
Why do I love Canada so deeply? Because it is my ‘home and native land’. Canada has such amazing potential, much of it squandered. Canada to me is a land of plenty, a land of unimaginable resources, a land of vision and dreams and hope. But Canada more recently has become a land of the cynical and despondent. We have lost so many of our dreams, our hopes, our aspirations. Now is the time to recapture our heritage. As we scratch below the surface, everywhere we look, we find a deep godly heritage in Canada’s history. This history is ours to
reclaim as our very own. Canada needs renewal, revival, and restoration like it has never needed it. We are on the edge of a precipice that many people refuse to see, but it is very real. I grieve for the rapid loss of so much that has made Canada great.
Canada is my past, my present, my future. I cry out for our beloved land that it may return to whom it really is. Jesus is the Lord of Canada, in a way which if recognized, can transform even dark corners of our land into beacons of light.
Wake up Canada! Come alive, Canada! Claim your inheritance before it is too late. Repent and turn from your self-absorption, and He will have mercy upon you and on your children’s children. Now is the hour! Now
is the time! Now is the day of salvation for our beloved land. The very soul of our nation is at stake. Let us not be found wanting.
http://www.cbc.ca/wish/2007/06/editorial_5.html
I so agree with this.
Canada needs to come back to their roots and embrace Christianity.
I pray for this daily for a national revival!
For the sheep to come back to their shepherd!
For this nation to come back to our lord and savior!