God Bless America

I love America. I'm a lawyer and love reading about America's history, the huge success of this Great Experiment, and the personal sacrifices that were made for it. All of this information gives me a historical, big-picture perspective of current events.

In addition, I've read (and practice) a law of attraction (now known as "The Secret") approach to life. It compliments, rather than competes with, my spirituality.

So then, it occurred to me - years of Americans singing, praying, praising, affirming, every day, several times a day, with commitment, positive expectation, and enthusiasm - "God Bless America!"

The lightbulb went off! That is some serious positive affirmation going on for a very long time by millions of people every day.

It is a recognition that there is a Higher Power, a Universe, God, an Divine Energy through which we are all connected. It is also a REQUEST. And, it has always been made with the highest level of Vibration Energy - positive expectation and Gratitude.

American's have always been grateful for their freedom, for the unique opportunity that our citizens claimed, earned, defended and still enjoy.

I think not.

Blessing someone or something raises that person up - thereby raising up all others whom they touch.

And yet, so much of the media and anti-Iraq-war people believe that it does.

It means so many things at different times.

In wartime it means, keep my children safe (because I know others are out to hurt them). It means send your Spirit to the ones who would see freedom destroyed so that they may cease their destruction. It means send your Spirit to stir the courage of those who seek to have freedom and peace reign.

In peacetime it means, continue to shower us with the blessings of abundance of freedom, health, productivity, peace, Spirit, and financial wealth.

American's rose up the daily prayer, God Bless America, long before Irving Berlin made the prayer/phrase/affirmation/request famous in 1938.

These lyrics are from lyricsfreek.com.

While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free.
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:

God bless america, land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless america,
My home sweet home.

According to the Library of Congress:

"America's unofficial national anthem was composed by an immigrant who left his home in Siberia for America when he was only five years old. The original version of "God Bless America" was written by Irving Berlin (1888-1989) during the summer of 1918 at Camp Upton . . ."

If you are a traditional American who loves saying, in prayer or at ball games or just out of habit, "God Bless America," keep doing it!

If you are a "new age" American who seeks to apply more and more Law of Attraction principles to your life, keep saying "God Bless America!"

If you are a person somewhere in the spectrum between the two, keep praying, requesting and affirming "God Bless America!"

Every single "God Bless America!" helps.

About 6 months ago, I actually heard a BBC reported utter these words. She said, at the end of a report, that the citizens in Iraq were looking forward to the day that "peace returns to the Middle East."

When, in the last 5000 years, was there EVER peace in the Middle East? Never.

And, it didn't exist under the Taliban or under Saddam Hussein. What DID reign was terror and torture. Ask the mothers and daughters who were raped under Hussein's terroristic rule if they would like to see that kind of "peace" return. Ask the mothers and fathers of the sons who were kidnapped into the Hussein's "army," if they want that "peace" to return. Ask the 98% of Iraqi's who woke up every morning filled with fear that saying the wrong to the wrong person would land them in a hellish jail or execution, torture, or worse - torture of their loved ones.

I never want to see that kind of "peace" return to Iraq (or Afganistan).

Yes, thousands of Iraqi's are losing their lives in defending their new-found freedom. The loyalists to terror and torture crave the power that a dictatorship brings (in truth, that's all that they know) - and are willing to kill their innocent civilian citizens of their own country to return the country to the good old days of fear and pain. But, those Iraqi's are not being killed by Americans, but by their own citizens who are attempting to rob them of their hard-won freedom.

Does anyone (who advocates for the withdrawal of American troops as a method to stop the killing of Iraqi's) stop to consider how many Americans lost their lives in the Revolution in the name of freedom? in the Civil War? in World War II?

How about the number of Russian civilians who died in WWII during Germany's attack on their country? Tens of thousands.

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