Unity Under God America

 

One side says, "Your governing did this!"
The other says "No, We will fix it alone!"
But we should each know our limits
Prosperity's for God to make known

Let the right and left unite
And meet in the middle somewhere
We are a nation of light
And ought to then seek out God's care

Civility with promise

That is what our Father's passed on

Put contention on notice

Unity under God, makes us strong

Let the right and left unite
And meet in the middle somewhere
We are a nation of light
And ought to then seek out God's care

Get All of the Word's Out

Find the words

To get the thoughts out

Write them down

Though not a lot now

More will come

As you ruminate

Life lessons,

In you, will awake

This poem is based on personal reflection. 

I had a concussion and blacked out around 10 years ago. It was a bit of balance and vision recovery. Since then, I don't play the piano (only for my ears in quality) or read like I used to. I decided to  push myself into getting a masters. Crazy, right?  And I would hear my husband say, 'Find your words" a lot when we were talking. We kind of joked about it. I would replace words in sentences like couch for bench. And it was fascinating how my brain came up with that. 

But writing became more of a joy. I find it easier to write than speak. A good thing because getting a masters in education requires a lot of written reflection which I call blah blah. Lol. 

I have always been one who remembers things by writing them down. Each church talk is a new gem- a source for writing. Never do old talks or previous poems get in the way- even after 7,000 poems! 

I ponder and feel the words/the thought that get me started. And I know when I'm done because I got "all the words out".

Cause of Liberty

The flag of freedom

Is a banner that we share-

A Constitution 

Now seems framed everywhere! 

You burned the red, white, and blue- 

Having given up on God?

How hatred burns within you! 

You've forgotten what we've got!

Government doesn't grant freedom

It protects God's gift to us

So we can grow in love and wisdom

And self govern through choice, thus.

Now- it is time to unite

And trust in principles

Let's focus on what's right

For common sense is simple

https://youtu.be/0FRfGvTlQsM?si=depLHUrMzhNECjcy

Please don't destroy our country

Because you feel to protest

Let it go and let it be

And trust the election's process

Let's Help Trump Get to Heaven!

May Trump get to Heaven

For having saved lives

For ending six wars, even

By rebuilding ties

Might I add one more war?

America, from within

We forgot what we're For

Perhaps we will with Him?

Money, fear, enemies

Family, abortion, sex

We've lost our identity

I can't fathom what comes next!

Lost, are the rules

Of Civility!

We've become fools!

Where's dignity?

America loves immigrants

But not through the Cartel!

For each pass through evil hands

Who"re now more powerful 

Human trafficking?

And...who wants Fentanol?

Corruption's infiltrating!

Let's fight this!- One and all!

Pray for America

For the land of the free

We need miracles

To achieve unity

And Heaven...our destiny

In Memory of Our Call to Duty WW ll

 

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A Story You'll Never Forget Salt Lake man honors veterans for Memorial Day - ksl.com

Salt Lake man honors veterans for Memorial Day - ksl.com

The gestapo stopped him as he was about to pass
They demanded that he drop his pants
Seeking the evidence of a circumcision
His arrest was but a quick decision

His job would be to cut down the huge trees
To feed the fires for the crematories
His hard shoes were made of cloth and bark
From a dead man's feet, evidence his future was stark

Each man's weight was only skin and bones
Side by side six slept in a bed full of groans
Where on the hour together they would flip
Lest any one of them might break a hip

Then came a rucus... they were told to hide
In the sewer, a slippery fecal slide
Someone yelled out, they were now free!
And that they were alive, it was hard to believe

Each man in the service wept at the sight
How could these prisoners still be alive?
They helped to clean them and sought to understand
And for their courage they shook each slight hand

The boy... does anyone know what became of him?
Years passed and family found him healthy and trim
What a celebration! Having thought him dead!
With determination they would look ahead

But...for the others their story is retold
That the memory never ever grow cold
Shall we eliminate a color, religion, or race?
No! We are all God's children- with love to embrace

Answer to a Nation Sliding into Chaos

When chaos overcomes

Efforts to deesculate

A spiritual revival becomes

Our best hope to erase hate

Laws are being toyed with

Amidst civil unrest

Civility can't win when

We don't share how we are blessed

Great Britain is at risk.

France is at risk.

Germany is at risk.

The US is at risk.

You have to be a healthy nation

To take refugees in

When there's no acclimation

Civil unrest begins

https://youtu.be/Se2azRu5QAI?si=ISBPWonaxgQ3P_zz

The Overdue Homecoming

The son, brother, husband, father

Long overdue.  Long past hope.

The remains found years after.

Now, brought to rest. Honored. Home. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAMyqdMj_g   after 52 years, Southwest Airlines Captain Bryan Knight last saw his father, Col. Roy A Knight, at Dallas Love Field Airport when he was five years old. Col. Knight deployed to serve in the Vietnam War in 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk5BFTiAL4k  after 80 years- and brought home by his nephew, Captain Chuck Axel. SSGt Loring Lord was killed in action over Germany on March 21, 1945.t

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We Don't Need to Redefine America

We don’t need to redefine America
But return to its truths, self evident
The constitution was indeed a miracle
Putting policy where it is best spent

Promoting the general welfare, hence
While granting freedoms equally to all
Providing for the common defense
Responding to liberty’s call

The American Republic, once great
Ought not become a socialist state
Freeing industry improves the employment rate
We must act before it is too late!

Green jobs, stimulus packages, entitlements
Must be a thing of the past
Giving power back to local governments
Returned to the people at last

click on the title to read Tom McClintock's speech
California: A Morality Tale in Three Parts

The following is a speech delivered to the
Council on National Policy on September 30, 2011....

We Who in Freedom Live Today

We who in freedom live today
Remember those once brave
Who knew the valiant price to pay
For sovereign rights to save

The greatest act that one can do
Is to do what's hard, but right
To face enemies and fear too
And be steadfast in the fight

If we ever were to forget
Life's lessons would be gone
But a patriot's heart won't let
Of such comes freedom's song

Thus in the season where colors fall
And families gather near
Let us pay tribute to honor's call
And thank our veteran's dear

Pause and Remember

Pause to remember
Solemnly with pride
Our American heroes
Who now live and have died

We owe all these men and women
Our respect and admiration
We are grateful for each veteran
For their service to this nation


Mitt Romney
Today, Veterans Day, we pause to remember - and to take solemn pride in -
America’s heroes. We owe the men and women who have served in our armed forces our respect, our admiration, and our eternal gratitude.

The Golden Thread of Freedom

Throughout the gospel plan

There lies a golden thread

Giving free agency to man

To choose where one is led

Defend the constitution

Each freedom it provides

Safeguard it from pollution

And strengthen it with your lives

Give of yourself in service

As it is vitally important to activate-

Those finer qualities of purpose

That refine us and are a joy to radiate

To summarize our capacity to influence those around us, President McKay said the following half a century ago:

There is one responsibility which no man can evade and that responsibility is personal influence. Man’s unconscious influence, the silent, subtle radiation of his personality. The effect of his words and acts. These are tremendous. Every moment of life he is changing to a degree the life of the whole world.
Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other. Man cannot escape for one moment from this radiation of his character. This constantly weakening or strengthening of others. He cannot evade the responsibility by saying it is an unconscious influence. He can select the qualities he would permit to be radiated. He can cultivate sweetness, calmness, trust, generosity, truth, justice, loyalty, nobility, and make them vitally active in his character. By these qualities he will constantly affect the world. This radiation to which I refer comes from what a person really is, not from what he pretends to be. Every man by his mere living is radiating sympathy, sorrow, or morbidness, cynicism, or happiness or hope, or any other hundred qualities. Life is a state of radiation and absorption. To exist is to radiate. To exist is to be the recipient of radiation.

"To radiate our positive influence in civic affairs, we must become righteous and moral; we must, as Ghandi once said, be the change we wish to see in the world. We need to learn and abide by the principles found in the Constitution, for as President McKay taught: "Next to being one in worshiping God, there is nothing in this world upon which this Church should be more united than in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States!" (Instructor Magazine, 1956, 91:34). We must take that knowledge and understanding of the Constitution, and infuse our political system with its disinfecting simplicity and principled restraints; we must become leaders and work diligently to support good people in public office, or seek office ourselves. And finally, we must radiate our influence by exposing ourselves to those who might be impacted and uplifted by our actions, words, and character."


http://www.connorboyack.com/blog/the-civic-duty-of-the-latter-day-saints

The State is No Judge of Religious Truth

The state is no judge of religious truth
It must be mute on such matters
History, alone, gives us the proof
To civic peace it has been disastrous

Each man must tend to his own conscience
Coming to know for himself what is right
Learning to self-govern and to be cautious
Of what puffs itself up to take freedom and light

Religion is that transcendent link
To God and community
That each might spiritually drink
Moral fiber for unity

pondering:

Is religion special?

Desert News

Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011 

any comments are appreciated... as I am still pondering

Founding Principles

Founding principles

Made this land great.

Freedom and enterprise-

It is not too late!

Save the Constitution-

Increase the defense.

"The People" not institutions-

Make the true difference!

The will, the heartbeat

Calls us to work hard.

We have a destiny.

We know who we are!

America's soul

Is worthy of saving.

Of our leading role

The world is more craving.

Liberty, choice

Freedom, religion-

On each make a noise

The vote... the decision.

God Has Planted in Us a Love for Liberty

God has planted within us
A love for liberty
These times are perilous
In bondage we are hurting

For rebirth let us turn back
To God and search for light
Our freedom's under attack
And we must do what's right

The soul of America
Has been deeply injured
We need a miracle
As we now lay endangered

Our Constitution hangs
Sadly by a thread
As for freedom we once sang
We complain now instead

Families, in half, are torn
And marriage is at risk
For wayward children we mourn
The slippery slope- it did this

But the sky still shines with freedom
The clouds promise there's more
Let us seek God for wisdom
And right this course of error

May our pulpits flame again
And stir our hearts to see
When we're humble there's wisdom
Lighting you and me

Re-declare independence
Prepare well for a fight
History's the evidence
That each must sacrifice

Who will humbly pray?
Who will give their all?
Each and every day?
Answering freedom's call?

Recognizing God's hand
Let's work to do His will
Helping freedom stand
Our destiny to fulfill

Let us pray to be led
By one noble, true, and great
Who has earned respect?
Humbly to take the weight?

Let him not stand alone
May others rise up tall
In truth, to be known
As servants to us all

May they rise in Spirit
And speak with great command
Compelling all to hear this-
"With honor we must stand"

Be of good cheer and sing
In thanksgiving for all we know
Let the cry of freedom ring
And the pledge of allegiance grow

Let us pledge allegiance
To this worthy cause
Calling for obedience
Unto all of God's laws

Let us raise this great nation
To where it ought to be
And in our homes for explanation
Let us school liberty

Liberty- is will
It's a part of us like skin
It belongs to us still
And with light will brighten

Mothers

Societies always need
A little reminding

It is our mothers who lead

The future we're finding

Be a Communicator of Great Things

Be a communicator of great things

Rediscover patriotism and common sense

Teach what our history best brings:

A shining city of, for, and by the people, hence

Beliefs Become a Reality

Beliefs become a reality

Through freedom, truth, and faith

Becoming the fruits of society

Releasing the spirit... to create

The Rights of Man

The same revolutionary beliefs For which our forefathers fought Cannot be taken by thieves Cannot be changed or bought Man's rights are God given For the pursuit of happiness They cannot be taken Like skin, they're a part of us For I have sworn before you and                                  Almighty God, the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe — the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 I heard Mitt Romney mention this Inaugural Address- and I wondered what he'd said.  These are amazing words!

September 11 On Faith

Surge of Faith

The nine eleven tragedy
Brought us together,as a nation of faith
Feeling the need to be steady
We found God in a remarkable way

Lost Moral Footing

But by nature we are foolishly vain
And we have lost our moral footing
Doing that which causes one pain
As it is God's commandments we are forgetting

The Key

The key to our happiness
Is found in excellent behavior
As that is when we are blessed
Following the path of the Savior

President Monson, Other Religious Leaders Share Thoughts on 9/11 Anniversary
http://newsroom.lds.org/article/president-monson-on-faith-9-11-forum

A 911 Survivor

911 began as a beautiful day
The sky was blue, perfectly so
With a job for 3 months, I was on my way!
When the plane hit I was among the first to know

I was on the 85th floor working about
The building swayed and then it snapped back
There was nothing but smoke, the elevator was blown out
I was to learn later we had been attacked

We found some stairs, it was a long way down
There was an explosion when I got outside
I just kept moving, following the crowd
When a cloud engulfed, I found shelter inside

The building was gone! My floor was nowhere!
At first I felt blessed... a survivor
Then depressed...when sleep came- I longed to stay there
Desperately I needed my Savior

Some say after 911 that there is no God
But that’s when I found Him... no doubt
My life changed, I sought to be with my family a lot
Through Him, from despair, I was shown the way out

I found a new life reading the scriptures
Where I would bury myself evermore
Christ the healer could make me whole, I was made sure
Awaked to the purpose- of what life is for

The Savior suffered children to come unto Him
And I wanted to bring mine to Him also
We now read together feeling hearts soften
As a family of believers we serve Him and know...

God is there to those who have faith to search
Blessing us... unto gratitude
For my wife, kids, Bishop, and members of the church
I thank you! I was in pain and you understood

From long commutes... from a lifestyle that smothers
To life that’s worth living... and the time to bless others

Read more about V. Guzman
Whom I don't know but am grateful for!
http://mormon.org/me/1GW3-eng/VGuzman/