Sunday at Home

Happy Sunday Lovelies

Well... my foot is a little better, but still painful and swollen. So.. unable to get a a shoe on, for the first time in a long time MrD and I missed church. Luckily though, our church broadcasts the Sunday service so we were able to Listen at home. Not quite the same as being there.. but hopefully next week we will be back

It was lovely to get a couple of phone calls.. one from our pastors wife.. and another from our dear friend Joy enquiring if we were ok. It is nice to be missed

Today was also Flag Day, an American "holiday" celebrated annually on June 14 that commemorates the adoption of the "Stars and Stripes" as the official flag of the United States. It marks the anniversary of the 1777 resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress. 

In 1942 it was a major patriotic milestone during World War II and was also widely referred to as "United Flag Day" to honor the allied forces of the United Nations. The President,  Franklin D, Roosevelt addressed the nation reading the beautiful poem "Prayer for Brotherhood" by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Vincent Benét and written at the request of the Librarian of Congress.  Part of it is written below.

"The Spirit of man has awakened

The Soul of man has gone forth 

Grant us the wisdom and the vision 

to comprehend the greatness of man's Spirit,

that suffers and endures so hugely for a goal 

beyond his own brief span 

We are all of us children of Earth 

Grant us that simple knowledge 

If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed 

If they hunger, we hunger 

If their freedom is taken away, our freedom is not secure 

Grant us a common faith, 

that man shall know bread and peace

 

That he shall know justice and righteousness, 

Freedom and security, 

an equal opportunity, 

and an equal chance to do his best, 

not only in our own lands, 

but throughout the world. 

And in that faith, let us march, 

march toward the clean world, our hands can make. 

Amen "

-Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 14,1942