This Memorial Day weekend has been a relaxing one and I am grateful for this opportunity to just be together enjoying family time.  This year we decided  not to entertain……prepare food, clean the yard, house  etc.  in order to have folks over,  but just relaxed and enjoyed being with each other.  We’ve been having a wonderful weekend.  We’ve napped, and read, and puttered (my husbands favorite thing)…..we’ve gone to the driving range to practice golf swings, we took items to the good-will store, and we enjoyed a wonderful old movie  Sergeant York, which was perfect for Memorial Day weekend.  If you are looking for a good old-fashioned movie that honors God, the Bible and America check out Sergeant York.  This movie like a good  classic book allows for many  conversations and world view lessons.  Grateful for family…and for our soldiers who have fought so that we may live our lives in peace.  ~Anne

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Although a certain  MSNBC host  is uncomfortable labeling our fallen soldiers as “Heroes,” honoring our men today is the least we can do.  Because of our  heroes we are free  and news reporters such as this man are also free to express their own thoughts no matter how ungrateful they may sound.  Who are the heroes now if not our soldiers?  The VFW is demanding an apology from this reporter….but I don’t think an apology would change anything….this sentiment is reflected among many on the left and they are unrepentant.   Liberals and progressives often despise the military even though they love  to hear their own voices and exercise their own freedom of speech.

 

As I was going through some of my boys old workbooks, I came across this simple poem “A Time to Talk, ” by Robert Frost.  This was in our First Language Lessons workbook.  I remember reading it with my boys and appreciating the sentiment in it.  I always love it when folks take the time for a friendly visit.

 

When a friend calls to me from the road

And slows his horse to a meaning walk,

I don’t stand still and look around

On all the hills I haven’t hoed,

And shout from where I am, What is it?

No, not as there is a time to talk.

I thrust my how in the mellow ground,

Blade-end up and five feet tall,

And plod;  I go up to the stone wall

For a friendly visit.

 

“When I was young, I was sure of many things;  now there are only two things of which I am sure:  one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other , that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour.  He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.”  John Newton (1725-1807)

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

T’was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed. ~John Newton

 

Rarely do we see a worthy commercial anymore.  This  one which gives honor to motherhood,  shows how valuable and important a job it is…..the best career in all the world. 🙂

 

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Psalm 139

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
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Something has happened to our America since we have turned our backs on our godly heritage, traditions and values. The truths taught in the Bible influenced our society and even those folks who did not attend church, often had respect for God and the Bible…many followed “The Golden Rule.”  America was great because America was good.  If we cease to be good, our greatness will end.

Renowned French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)  made some interesting and noteworthy observations when he visited America in 1831.

     I visited their manufactories, their commercial markets and emporiums  of trade;  I entered their judicial courts and legislative halls; but I sought everything in vain until I entered the Church.  It was there as I listened to the soul-elevating principles of the Gospel of Christ, as they fell from Sabbath to Sabbath upon the masses of the people, that I learned why America was great and free and why France was a slave…..America is great because America is good.  When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

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