Month: September 2016
Great Peace
Peace is making your calling and election sure;
Enjoying the fruits of the Holy Spirit you will endure;
Fruits such as love, joy, peace and patience against which there is no
law;
Peace is friendship with the Saviour and before Him bow;
Great peace is promised to those who love God’s law;
And being offended at nothing is nice because;
Peace is not worrying about anything;
Your trust is in God and you love to sing:
Glory to God in the highest and on earth good will toward men;
Peace is a gift from God our Father when you allow Jesus to come in.
– Bernice Hooks
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10th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1929 Arnold Palmer (legendary golfer)
Died:
2012 Steven Springer (musician)
On This Day:
1967 Gibraltar votes overwhelmingly to remain British, instead of becoming part of Spain
Have a good Saturday, 10th September
A Peaceful World
Do you ever wonder what life would
Be like with a peaceful world?
I do, and I have dreamed of having
A peaceful place to live without a worry being attacked.
Not ever having a worry like that,
Wouldn’t that be great not having to see another heart broken
By losing a loved one because they had to go to war,
Or being killed because we were attacked.
Not having to worry any member of anybody in the army of
Any troop becoming a prisoner of war
Because they got captured
By some people that was upset and real angry with something or
Someone had done to them.
If you have never wondered about a peaceful world.
Maybe you need to think about it.
You will be surprised at what you wonder from time to time.
– Samantha Williams
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9th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1754 William Bligh (captain of the “Bounty”, famous for its mutiny)
Died:
1976 Mao Zedong (Chinese revolutionary and leader)
On This Day:
1850 California is admitted as the 31st State of the USA
Have a good Friday, 9th September
Peace
Suddenly bells and flags!
Suddenly — door to door —
Tidings! Can we believe,
We, who were used to war?
Yet we have dreamed her face,
Knowing her light must be,
Knowing that she must come.
Look — she comes, it is she!
Tattered her raiment floats,
Blood is upon her wings.
Ah, but her eyes are clear!
Ah, but her voice outrings!
Soon where the shrapnel fell
Petals shall wake and stir.
Look — she is here, she lives!
Beauty has died for her.
– Eleanor Agnes Lee
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8th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1925 Peter Sellers (actor and comedian)
Died:
2010 Rich Cronin (singer & song writer)
On This Day:
1930 ‘Blondie’ comic strip first appears
Have a good Thursday, 8th September
World Peace
When I cast a look around the world,
I marvel at what I see and hear.
Why, I ponder , is the world at war?
Why, I lament, should the world know no peace?
You world Powers! Put your ammunition in its arsenal.
Enough of nuclear wars, enough of threats of war.
The Lilliputian Third World walking under your Gangatuan feet,
Was created by God just as God created you.
Your duty, it is to help it outgrow its groping stage.
There should be no re-occurrence of the war in Vietnam,
No more fracas in Surinam,
No repeat performance of the Soweto imbroglio.
Rwanda should not be put asunder.
Enough of the Somalia saga.
Ethiopia and Liberia experience we want no more.
Let peace reign in Bosnia Herzegovina.
‘No’ to war I say, ‘Yes’ to peace I maintain.
War does no good to anyone.
War kills, war maims, war annihilates.
Turmoil and tribulation all characterize war.
Famine and deprivation are all babies of war.
Wars tear families apart, refugees abound everywhere.
Many are rendered homeless, a lot become hopeless.
Causalities of war in the scenes of ravage and wreck,
Letter the ground in their hundreds and thousands.
Let’s have a new world order.
Let’s make peace our watchword.
Let peace reign supreme in the world.
Peace brings joy; peace puts the mind at rest.
The world must embrace peace, not war.
The world must live, in peace, not in pieces.
‘No’ to war I say, ‘Yes’ to peace I maintain.
– Mac Araromi
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7th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1533 Queen Elizabeth 1 of England
Died:
1943 JP Morgan Jr. (financier)
On This Day:
1923 Interpol forms
Have a good Wednesday, 7th September
Peace On Earth
He took a frayed hat from his head,
And “Peace on Earth” was what he said.
“A morsel out of what you’re worth,
And there we have it: Peace on Earth.
Not much, although a little more
Than what there was on earth before
I’m as you see, I’m Ichabod,—
But never mind the ways I’ve trod;
I’m sober now, so help me God.”
I could not pass the fellow by.
“Do you believe in God?” said I;
“And is there to be Peace on Earth?”
“Tonight we celebrate the birth,”
He said, “of One who died for men;
The Son of God, we say. What then?
Your God, or mine? I’d make you laugh
Were I to tell you even half
That I have learned of mine today
Where yours would hardly seem to stay.
Could He but follow in and out
Some anthropoids I know about,
The god to whom you may have prayed
Might see a world He never made.”
“Your words are flowing full,” said I;
“But yet they give me no reply;
Your fountain might as well be dry.”
“A wiser One than you, my friend,
Would wait and hear me to the end;
And for his eyes a light would shine
Through this unpleasant shell of mine
That in your fancy makes of me
A Christmas curiosity.
All right, I might be worse than that;
And you might now be lying flat;
I might have done it from behind,
And taken what there was to find.
Don’t worry, for I’m not that kind.
‘Do I believe in God?’ Is that
The price tonight of a new hat?
Has he commanded that his name
Be written everywhere the same?
Have all who live in every place
Identified his hidden face?
Who knows but he may like as well
My story as one you may tell?
And if he show me there be Peace
On Earth, as there be fields and trees
Outside a jail-yard, am I wrong
If now I sing him a new song?
Your world is in yourself, my friend,
For your endurance to the end;
And all the Peace there is on Earth
Is faith in what your world is worth,
And saying, without any lies,
Your world could not be otherwise.”
“One might say that and then be shot,”
I told him; and he said: “Why not?”
I ceased, and gave him rather more
Than he was counting of my store.
“And since I have it, thanks to you,
Don’t ask me what I mean to do,”
Said he. “Believe that even I
Would rather tell the truth than lie—
On Christmas Eve. No matter why.”
His unshaved, educated face,
His inextinguishable grace.
And his hard smile, are with me still,
Deplore the vision as I will;
For whatsoever he be at,
So droll a derelict as that
Should have at least another hat.
– Edward Arlington Robinson
6th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1974 Tim Henman (British tennis star)
Died:
1990 Tom Fogerty (rocker – Credence Clearwater Revival)
On This Day:
1916 First supermarket open (The Piggly Wiggly, Memphis, Tennessee)
Have a good Tuesday, 6th September
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