I tried to get this out two days ago but I was, obviously, unsuccessful. What a glorious time the 4
th of July is to reflect on His grace and abundance. As we celebrated we started a new tradition this year and read the
preamble to the
Constitution and the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. Wow what a powerful reminder of why this nation was started. If you haven't ever done this as a family, I recommend you and your families reading both. I have posted the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence below but please do read the
preamble to the Constitution as well
here!!!
Thank you for all who serve, have served or have family who serve, your sacrifice is NOT unnoticed and VERY appreciated!!!
The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and 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 separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
#44-#52 Gifts from God
Fireworks
Sister's pasta
saladCleansing rain
Freedom
Summer day camps
Good friends on long walks
Fresh bread
Men and women serving over seas for our freedom today (thank you)
Fields of wheat
Blessings #62-71
