America

God bless America
And keep us safe and free,
Safe from "all our enemies"
Wherever they may be.

For enemies are forces
That often dwell within,
Things that seem so harmless
Become a major sin.

Little acts of selfishness
Grow into lust and greed,
And make the love of power
Our idol and our creed.

For all our wealth and progress
Are as worthless as can be,
Without the faith that made us great
And kept our nation free.

And while it's hard to understand
The complexities of war,
Each one of us must realize
That we are fighting for
The principles of freedom
And the decency of man,
But all of this much be achieved
According to God's plan.

So help us as Americans
To search deep down inside,
And discover if the things we do
Are always justified.

And teach us to walk humbly
And closer in Thy ways,
And give us faith and courage
And put purpose in our days.

And make each one of us aware
That each must do his part,
For in the individual is where peace
Must have its start.

For a better world to live in
Where all are safe and free,
Must start with faith and hope
And love deep in the heart of "Me."

~ Helen Steiner Rice ~

~If Nobody Cared~

If nobody smiled and
nobody cared and
nobody helped us along.

If every moment looked after
itself and good things
always went to the strong;

If nobody thought just
A little about you
and nobody cared about me,

and we stood all alone in
the battle of life what a
dreary old world this would be.

Life is sweet just because of
friends we have made and the
things which in common we share.

We want to live on,
not because of ourselves,
but because of the people who care.

It is doing and giving
for somebody else on which
all of life's splendor depends.

The joy of this world,
when you've summed it all up
is found in the making of friends.

~ Author Unknown ~

The World in Black and White

You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they'd go.

Pull a chair up to the TV set,
"Good night David, Good night Chet"

Depending on the channel you tuned
You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June.

It felt so good, felt so right
Life looked better in black and white.

I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys,
Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys

Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train,
Superman, Lois Lane,

Father Knows Best, Patty Duke,
Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too.

Donna Reed on Thursday night
Life looked better in black and white.

I wanna go back to black and white
Everything always turned out right.

Simple people, simple sights.
Good guys always won the fights.

Now nothing is the way it seems
In living color or on the screen.

I wanna go back to black and white.....

In God they trusted, in bed they slept
A promise made was a promise kept.

They never cussed or broke their vows
They'd never make the network now.

But if I could I'd rather be
In a TV town in ’63.

It felt so good, felt so right
Life looked better in black and white.....

I'd trade all the channels on the satellite
If I could just turn back the clock tonight

To when everybody knew wrong from right
Life was better in black and white......

~ Author Unknown ~

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