I didn't find this one on my own, but from a friend.
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve,
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health, that I might do great things,
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy,
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men,
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life,
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing I asked for...but everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Name that Patriotic Song/Speach/Document
Alright folks, see if you can! And all those Patriots out there may add their own if they so desire! I would have put more, but these are the only ones I could remember off the top of my head...so feel free to correct me if my memory was not quite up to par!
1.
"As the storm clouds gather far across the sea, let us swear allegiance to a land that's free. Let us all be grateful for a land so fair as we lift our voices in a solemn prayer."
2.
"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me. As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free while God is marching on!"
3.
"Our flag's unfurled to every breeze from dawn to setting sun.
We have been to every climb and place where we could take a gun.
If the army and the navy ever look on heaven's scene,
they will find the streets are guarded by the United States Marines."
4.
"We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense; promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity do ordain and establish this constitution for the United states of America."
5.
"There was Captain Washington upon a slappin' stallion a givin' orders to his men, I guess there was a million."
6.
"O thus be it ever when free men shall stand between their loved homes and the war's desolation. Blessed with victory and peace may the heaven rescued land praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
And then conquer we must when our cause it is just, and this be our motto: in God is Our trust!
And the flag of the free, forever may it wave, or the land of the free and the home of the brave."
7.
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, a Yankee-doodle do or die!
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, born on the fourth of July!
I've got a Yankee doodle sweatheart, she's my Yankee doodle joy.
Yankee doodle went to London just to ride the ponies,
I am my Yankee doodle Boy!
8.
Four-score and seven years ago, our Fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
9.
"Treason is a charge invented by the winners as an excuse for hanging the loosers"
(sorry, I couldn't resist)
10.
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
11.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
12.
RESOLVED, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be totally dissolved.
13.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, & to assume among the powers of the earth the equal & independant station to which the laws of nature & of nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the change.
1.
"As the storm clouds gather far across the sea, let us swear allegiance to a land that's free. Let us all be grateful for a land so fair as we lift our voices in a solemn prayer."
2.
"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me. As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free while God is marching on!"
3.
"Our flag's unfurled to every breeze from dawn to setting sun.
We have been to every climb and place where we could take a gun.
If the army and the navy ever look on heaven's scene,
they will find the streets are guarded by the United States Marines."
4.
"We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense; promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity do ordain and establish this constitution for the United states of America."
5.
"There was Captain Washington upon a slappin' stallion a givin' orders to his men, I guess there was a million."
6.
"O thus be it ever when free men shall stand between their loved homes and the war's desolation. Blessed with victory and peace may the heaven rescued land praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
And then conquer we must when our cause it is just, and this be our motto: in God is Our trust!
And the flag of the free, forever may it wave, or the land of the free and the home of the brave."
7.
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, a Yankee-doodle do or die!
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, born on the fourth of July!
I've got a Yankee doodle sweatheart, she's my Yankee doodle joy.
Yankee doodle went to London just to ride the ponies,
I am my Yankee doodle Boy!
8.
Four-score and seven years ago, our Fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
9.
"Treason is a charge invented by the winners as an excuse for hanging the loosers"
(sorry, I couldn't resist)
10.
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
11.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
12.
RESOLVED, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be totally dissolved.
13.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, & to assume among the powers of the earth the equal & independant station to which the laws of nature & of nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the change.
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