Sunday Sabbath July 3 2016   STUFF HAPPENING

Too much stuff happening to concentrate on a blog.  Probably too much stuff happening for anyone to read a blog.  So this will be short and sweet.

CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE

By Kathleen Martens

July 3, 2016

The Fourth of July comes every year

And is a day to commemorate and rejoice

The Independence from Great Britain’s rule

By the continental Congress’ voice.

Legal separation of Thirteen Colonies

A memorable moment in the history of our land.

Through the Declaration of Independence

The United States of America would stand.

A great anniversary from the founding fathers

To celebrate devotion to *God Almighty,

As well as with parades, games, and guns,

Solemnized, and never considered flighty.

So much history lost through the years,

Second hand information never best.

Let what is written in the annals of time

Speak the truth with zest.

Our country was founded by those who believed

Our country was to be founded on God

Through the years those principles changed

And most do not even think it odd.

So as you enjoy and celebrate

The freedoms we still have intact.

Pause a moment and give thanks to our Maker,

For God is real! And that’s a fact.

My prayer for our country:

Thank You God for the freedoms we have experienced in this country.  I pray that Your continued presence would be over our land.  Please protect the freedoms that our ungodly leaders in the secular world are trying to take from the citizens of our amazing country.  Allow Your presence to awaken anew and become alive in those who lead this country that we would stand strong and mighty as the Christian nation upon which were founded.

HAVE A GREAT FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION!

*The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia.  I copied this from the website.  Please see the words highlighted in RED ink in regards to what I have written in my poem about God. 

“During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia declaring the United States independent from Great Britain rule.  After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision, which had been prepared by a Committee of Five, with Thomas Jefferson as its principal author. Congress debated and revised the wording of the Declaration, finally approving it on July 4. A day earlier, John Adams had written to his wife Abigail:

‘The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.’

Adams’s prediction was off by two days. From the outset, Americans celebrated independence on July 4, the date shown on the much-publicized Declaration of Independence, rather than on July 2, the date the resolution of independence was approved in a closed session of Congress.

Historians have long disputed whether Congress actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, even though Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin all later wrote that they had signed it on that day”.

HAVE A GREAT INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION REGARDLESS WHICH DAY YOU CELEBRATE!  I AM CELEBRATING TODAY, JULY 3^RD AND TOMORROW JULY 4^TH.  I AM GETTING READY TO DEPART TO A NEIGHBORHOOD CELEBRATION PARTY!