Ping.
My Father's God to Thee
Author of liberty
To Thee we sing
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light
Protect us by Thy might
Great God our King
"My Country 'Tis of Thee" was written in Boston in 1831 by the Reverend Samuel Francis Smith. It is set to the tune of "God Save the King/Queen", the British national anthem. The origin of the melody is unverified. It represents one of the first times a hymn was adopted as a national anthem (1745).
Happy Independence Day to all!
God bless our one nation under GOD!
Leni
I’m sitting here writing to you in the peace of my little apartment, wages paid while at leisure and not at work. I’m having an excellent cappuccino. Wish I could make one for you and the rest of the posters on this thread. I think when I retire, the Lord Willing, I’ll buy a good commercial espresso machine, German or Italian made, and set up shop in a nook of an office building that caters to lawyers. I’ve this vision of my little triangular nook, replete with two sturdy mannequins, more like sturdy cut-outs, with little bubble dialogues hovering above their heads. I’d change the dialogue every few days. What do you think?
Let’s say it’s the 3rd of July, 2021.…
My female cardboard cut-out, let’s call her Sara. My male cut-out who looks like you would imagine St. Joseph to look, let’s call him Abraham, though, to those who knew him way back when he remains Abram.
Elizabeth says to Abraham, what do you suppose the basest of vices is? Abraham replies: how can you even ask that, Sara? But since you do, ingratitude!
My prayer today, L is that Our Lord remind us of the copious bloodshed of our young men throughout the life of our Country who died on the battlefield so miserably far away from hearth and home. I know I’ve heard the Italian terra whisper where they fell, thank you for liberating and never occupying.
That Our Lord remind us of the awful price we paid in our Civil War. That he remind us that we demanded our Black brothers lay down their lives for us in our wars of the twentieth century, and then we made them walk on opposite sides of the street from us.
That our Lord prepare us and convince us that we must tap into that which makes us capable of both great sin and great accomplishment, if we are called again to remove the boot of tyranny from the throat of those, who for whatever reason, cannot do it for themselves. And, to finally ask Our Lord for the forbearance towards those who following rescue inevitably despise their benefactors because they are a constant and sore reminder of their ignominy and their debt.
L, don’t know if you remember the UN talks following 9-11, but the Polish delegate (can’t remember his title) said that during the occupation of the USSR, the notion aphoristically advanced was that the way to acquire freedom was to attack the United States and force an occupation. I wonder if there were countries during the Roman Empire who harbored the same idea?