"Lord make a better person of me
This I would like to be -
Braver and bolder,
Just a bit wiser because I am older,
Just a bit kinder to those I may meet,
Just a bit stronger taking defeat.
This for the New Year my wish and plea,
Lord make a better person of me.
This I would like to be -
Just a bit finer,
More of a smiler less of a whiner,
Just a bit quicker to stretch out my hand,
Helping another who's struggling to stand,
This is my prayer for the New Year to be,
Lord make a better person of me.
This I would like to be -
Just a bit fairer,
Just a bit better and just a bit squarer,
Not quite so ready to censure and blame,
Quicker to help every one in the game.
Not quite so eager others' failings to see,
Lord make a better person of me.
This I would like to be -
Just a bit truer,
Less of a wisher more of a doer,
Broader and bigger, more willing to give,
Living and helping my neighbors to live.
This for the New Year my prayer and my plea,
Lord make a better person of me." --Edgar A. Guest
Poem from a father at Columbine
'Your laws ignore our deepest needs Your words are empty air. You've stripped away our heritage. You've outlawed simple prayer. 'Now gunshots fill our classrooms, And precious children die. You seek for answers everywhere. And ask the question "WHY"? 'You regulate restrictive laws, Through legislative creed. And yet you fail to understand, That God is what we need!' -- Darrel Scott(Darrel Scott's daughter was killed at Columbine High School)
How could God let something like this happen?
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding the attacks on Sept. 11).
Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.
And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school .... the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem ( Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1899
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