Fabulous Friday! * A Prayer for Independence*
This morning I experienced an honest-to-goodness "duh!" moment when contemplating what to post for Fabulous Friday. As I was considering what would be the best choice, I realized that yesterday's thrifty decorating tip would have been the best choice.
So...today's Fabulous Friday post finds us at Living Large taking a different turn with our post. We are praying that you and yours have a truly blessed Fourth of July. Perhaps sometime during the celebration of our country's freedom you will be able to slip to your knees in prayer that this country countinues to experience Freedom for us to celebrate. Living Large on Less isn't a political blog. It is a blog however that fully supports America and the freedom she stands for. Many men and women have bled and died to give us these blessings. It is only right that we do all we can to see that the liberties given to us be retained as our forefathers intended them to be.
Have you happened to read or hear of the challenges and sufferings faced by those brave souls who dare to sign the Declaration of Independence? If so, then you know full well a portion of the price paid. If not, it may be something to search out and read/listen to. There are serious decisions being made every day. Decisions which remove more and more of our freedom. If we are not aware, then we will be defeated---perhaps from the enemy within---or is our biggest enemy our own ignorance of the truth? Like I said, this isn't a political blog. However, since the true ability to Live Large on Less comes from a peacefully contented heart that trusts in God, wouldn't it be a Fabulous Friday if we were all to spend some time with the God this nation was dedicated to so many years ago? (See www.wallbuilders.com for insightful truths concerning the founding of America. These carefully researched and well documented truths are rarely, if ever, found in history books of today.)
Oh say can you see
by the dawn's early light
what so proudly we hailed
at the twilight's last gleaming
whose broad stripes and bright stars
through the perilous fight
o'er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming
and the rockets red glare
the bombs bursting in air
gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there
oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
o'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave
Now for the stanzas seldom heard:
On the shore dimly seen
thro' the mists of the deep
where the foe's haughty host
in dread silence reposes
what is that which the breeze
o'er the towering steep
as it fitfully blows
half conceals half discloses
now it catches the gleam
of the morning's first beam
in full glory reflected
now shines on the stream
'Tis the star-spangled banner
oh long may it wave
o'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave
Oh thus be it ever
when freemen shall stand
between their loved home
and wild war's desolation
blest with vict'ry and peace
may the heav'n rescued land
praise the Power that hath made
and preserved us a nation
Then conquer we must
when our cause it is just
and this be our motto
"In God is our trust!"
And the star-spangled banner
in triumph shall wave
o'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave
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I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands
one nation, under God, indivisible
with liberty and justice for all