Happy New Year

It certainly has been an interesting year. I would like to end the year with a prayer. I'm not very good with this so bear with me:

"Dear God - thank you for everything. You have blessed us with wonderful family and friends, good health and employment. We pray for all the people who are in need and hope that all who are lost will find You in the new year. Please be with us as we struggle with issues in our lives and guide us in the right direction. Help us to make good decisions. Amen."

What do these 5 things describe?

1. The undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home which is the basis of human society.
2. Higher and higher taxes; the spending of public money for free bread and circuses of the populace.
3. The mad craze for pleasure; sports becoming every year more exciting brutal and immoral.
4. The building of great armaments when the real enemy was within-- the decay of individual responsibility.
5. The decay of religion; faith fading into mere form, losing touch with life, losing power to guide the people.

Please put your guess in the comments.

Give up? Highlight here . ---> I got this information from my pastor. He got it from "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" written in 1788 by Edward Gibbon. Interesting isn't it?