I Love America, Differently, In Fuller History

I The Servants of Free Men on the Mayflower Knew "abundant life" in Jesus, Great Savior Two servants, too, rose up to sign The US Constitution Lover of His Morals, Binder of America's First Bible, Jefferson Perhaps, long before, some foundations cast by Tom Paine & William Penn II Then there is Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island Who paid Native Americans for Providence, new way to get land? More fortunate than Minister Anne Hutchinson, foe of New England Because she read the Bible, taught it, and well ... thus expelled Yet more fortunate than Mary Dyer, Quaker, now Watch at Boston Common III Smaller folk prayed for A Great Awakening. It came. Publicist: Ben Franklin Preachers in the trenches, before two Billys: Charles Finney & Our Theologian None other than Jonathan Edwards; when he died, on that occasion His wife wrote her daughter: we weep but thank LORD he was our relation! IV The idea of America ... inimitable; Einstein came as Refugee of Distinction And veterans I'm blessed to know, ennobled by trials and tribulation We lost Lewis Reynolds this year; a Marine and Man of many an Invention Your simple research will reveal we owe much to such Fighters For Freedom And in my church: Walter Ogden, Dick (Tex) Pentecost, Russell Coleman V Yes, we may criticize its imperfection ... often without paying a price There was the bad history with Indians - broken treaties and cowardice - Yet John Rolfe did marry Pocohontas, many now claim them Ancestors And slavery of Africans was brutish, but Lincoln busted free of old fears As did Noble Roosevelt, Carter, & Obama ... celebrate USA in Living Colors (c) Deo. Happy Birthday America; God empower the peoples and every level of Leadership to fulfill the Great Destiny of America. After all, Gandhi's great granddaughter, Uma, says: "Try to share; you'll have to one way or another."