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Sunday, July 06, 2008

VDH: In thanks

People who pray will tell you that praying in thanks is the most powerful prayer, a lesson I learned the hard way. So on this Independence Day weekend, let us pray in thanks: Via Irish Spy, a great essay by Victor Davis Hanson, Reflection Day
We live in the most prosperous and most free years of a wonderful republic, and can easily rectify our present crises that are largely of our own making and a result of the stupefying effects of our unprecedented wealth and leisure. Instead of endless recriminations and self-pity — of anger that our past was merely good rather than perfect as we now demand — we need to give thanks this Fourth of July to our ancestors who created our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and suffered miseries beyond our comprehension as they bequeathed to us most of the present wealth, leisure, and freedom we take for granted.
We sang this in church today

The music is from God Save the King, but here are the American lyrics:
My country,' tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrims' pride,
from every mountainside let freedom ring!

2. My native country, thee,
land of the noble free, thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
thy woods and templed hills;
my heart with rapture thrills, like that above.

3. Let music swell the breeze,
and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song;
let mortal tongues awake;
let all that breathe partake;
let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.

4. Our fathers' 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.
In thanks we live for our founding fathers, and for every American that has contributed to this our blessed country.

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