“God bless America, land that I love, stand beside her and guide her thru the night with a light from above!”
“O beautiful for spacious skies…
…for purple mountains majesties…
…above the fruited plain!…READ MORE
“God bless America, land that I love, stand beside her and guide her thru the night with a light from above!”
“O beautiful for spacious skies…
…for purple mountains majesties…
…above the fruited plain!…READ MORE
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change”
James 1:17
It’s time to fire up the grill and find your spot for the annual fireworks show…I can hardly believe that July 4 is next week! It seems like we just welcomed summer with Memorial Day! The red, white, and blue are flying high everywhere you look…and to me, they’re not only the colors of our great nation, but the colors of summer!
I don’t think I will be hosting a July 4 get-together this year, but I still wanted to set a table, so on Saturday evening when the scorching heat finally simmered down a little, I took to the patio. As I started putting everything in place, I noticed it was getting dark and looking like rain. Now, if you’re a blogger, you know that on a normal day, rain would not be welcome during an outdoor tablescape shoot. But I would have gladly packed up and gone back inside if it meant relief from the 90-100 degree weather we have been having lately! But to my dismay, the rain held off! Pull up a seat and grab a glass of raspberry tea and join me at our summer table full of stars and stripes!
I love pulling out the Schwinn 3-wheel bicycle and parking it in the garden to add a little seasonal decor!
Red, white, and blue is always appropriate!READ MORE
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land”
2 Chronicles 7:14
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Francis Scott Key, 1814
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”
Psalms 34:18
“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.”
Thomas CampbellREAD MORE