Filed under: God, love, music, nature, politics, spirituality, weather | Tags: America, Beauty, Thought
We sang this song in Church Sunday to celebrate Memorial Day. Is America still beautiful? How is it beautiful? What do you think?
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
We just shoveled out from our first storm of the season. It arrived with nine inches of snow and ice, just two days before the equinox (December 21). Old man winter is here! Last night (the official first day of winter) cold (-4 with wind chills) and winds (45 miles per hour) arrived. Today we won’t be over 25. Long johns, furried slippers, shoveling, fires in the fireplace all are part of this winter arrival. Winter – it’s all about attitude or so I tell myself. You can either love it or hate it. I think more recently I fell into the hate it category. With all going on this year, e.g., poor economy, etc., it would be easy to take that same attitude. But I am not. No, I love winter! Think positive. Shoveling is good exercise. Right! I’m trying. After all, spring is only three months away. What do you think?
The weather was very severe this weekend in certain parts of the country. Records were set for snow fall and rain fall in many parts of the country. No doubt, weather severity in the past few years seems to have gotten worse. The swings and departures from normal weather patterns have gotten greater. Does this all mean anything? Is environmental changes the cause? Or is this God’s wrath as some may claim? Can we do anything to stop these weather claimities? What do you think?
