Memorial Day Concert 2022

 Memorial Day concert 2022…

One of my favorite programs to watch yearly is the Memorial Day Concert in Washington D.C.

Presented in honor of the past and present military personnel…

Great music, great stories, great scenery…great patriotism…great honor…great faith…

Stories of heroism, stories of faith, stories of grief, stories of people-past and present…encouragement to march forward…

“They gave up their tomorrows for our todays”…

The show…

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb88V9dEoGs

The songs…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCzLU8gnWAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0uTz7uur8I

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QvUkGQioRg

https://www.history.com/news/how-did-taps-originate

Closing song….

Words and Music by Irving Berlin] 

(Originally composed in 1918 and later revised by him in 1938) 

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 

God bless America, My home sweet home. 

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/miscellaneouslyrics/patrioticsongslyrics/godblessamericalyrics.html

We have had a great nation…yes,  there are dark times…times not to be proud of…

It has been blessed with people, resources…beauty, abundance….freedom …a place people from all over the world desire to come either to visit or to stay…the most giving county in the world…

It rests on our shoulders to be good stewards of the freedom, the resources, the people…to be a beacon of light shining in the darkness…to do good…

Going around Washington D.C., there are stone memorials one after another where scripture is chiseled in place to show the roots with which our ancestors shared, lived by…God was written in the hearts of people as well…we have been gifted a great heritage here on earth…much more so a gift of Himself…after leaving this temporary journey, in a temporary land…a gift of eternal life through Christ…

Thank YOU…

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16-17