“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A Thought on Memorial Day
Archive | May 2021
God, Our Help
On this Memorial Day Weekend we take time to remember, and say a prayer of gratefulness for the many who have been willing to pay a great price for our freedom. We also stop to thank God for the freedom He has given to us, and for the price that was paid by Christ so that we could live free. We remember today. The cost of it all. The great sacrifice for freedom
O God, Our Help In Ages Past
O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
Under the shadow of Thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defence is sure.
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guard while life shall last,
And our eternal home.
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Lyrics: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Music: William Croft (1678-1727)
Photo: Marge McCoy
by heart
- It is spring again. The earth is like a child that know poems by heart.
- -Rainer Maria Rilke
- Photo by Marge McCoy
hope traversed
“Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” — Charlotte Brontë
Photo by Cheryl Cook
its own joy
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde
Photo by Belinda Brasley
memory
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Washington Irving
Photo by Mark Wood
sophistication
- “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
- ~ Leonardo da Vinci.
- Photo by Aaron Lazar
- www.aaronlazar.blogspot.com
my favorite weather
“My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.” — Terri Guillemets
Photo by Jean Pike
Glorious Things
Glorious things of Thee are spoken,
Holy city of our God;
He whose word cannot be broken
Formed Thee for His own abode;
On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake Thy sure repose?
With salvation’s walls surrounded,
Thou may’st smile at all Thy foes.
See the streams of living waters,
Springing from eternal love,
Well supply Thy blessed members,
And all fear of want remove;
Who can faint, when such a river
Ever flows their thirst t’ assuage?
Grace which, like the Lord, the giver,
Never fails from age to age.
Lyrics:John Newton (1725-1807)
Music:Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Photo: Bob McCoy
beautiful days
Beautiful days do not come to you. You must walk towards them.
~Rumi
Photo by Mark Wood
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