‘My Country, ‘Tis of Thee’

The sun came out again today, and I was taking a break, enjoying the weather, when this hymn swept me into its arms. I thought I’d better post it–especially this closing verse.

Our fathers’ God to thee, author of liberty, to thee we sing.

Long may our land be bright, with freedom’s holy light!

Protect us by thy might, great God our King!

Our country, and indeed the whole world, is in the most terrible trouble. Sin, folly, wickedness, war: we are in dire need of God’s protection, in desperate need of repentance and God’s grace. We need your grace, O LORD, and need it now.

In Jesus’ name, Amen!

‘A Prayer for Our Country’ (2020)

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We need to keep praying for our country. What–did you think the wicked would take time off from trying to devour us?

A Prayer for Our Country

You know they’re looking for another “pandemic” or some other “emergency” to lay on us in time for the 2024 presidential election, so they can go back to mail-in voting and all their other tricks.

Will they get away with it again? You know they never stop.

Now I’m Really Confused

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Somewhere there must be someone who can explain this.

For the second half of 2019 and the first half of 2020, this blog was really trucking. We were actually within reach of 12,000 views in a month. But then we had a major Internet outage at the end of June, and from then on, my viewership numbers just kept falling and falling.

Then, for no reason I’ve been able to detect, October finished strong and the first half of November has come on like gangbusters. Five days with over 400 views! Eighteen days in a row with 300 or better. What’s goin’ on here? I study the stats carefully: no indication that anything I’ve posted has gone viral.

But then again, it is 2020, the year the locusts have eaten to the ground, and my blog hasn’t been the only thing not working. At least it seems to have recovered!

Pray for our country to recover–and soon. Pray for the fear merchants to lose their hold on us.