Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Revelations 1:4-6 (NKJV)
United, The Land of the Free
By Effie Darlene Barba
Anger and hate, division and strife
Filling the streets, choking out life
How do we, Lord, know what really is true?
When lies, hate and fear are all that they spew
They scream they want love, that all should unite
By disruption, destruction all through the night
The media lies, the elitists do cheer
Controlling the mobs with hate and with fear
The Power they want, held tight in their hand
If division remains in the heart of the land
How can they not see, how can they not know?
That You are the hope for we creatures below.
By Grace You have stretched out Your loving hand
To the broken, forgotten, each lost soul of this land
You bid them to come and rest in Your peace
Where anger, division, and fear all will cease
To trust in Your love and to Rest in Your Grace
Whatever their background, their creed or their race
You are the one who can set their heart free
Open their eyes that they might then see
That love can be found deep in each heart
When anger and fear has been bid to depart
By Your gift of salvation, bought by Your Son
In Whom we are woven United each one
A Nation of hope for the world all to see
The Truth of the Words “The land of the free”
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New King James Version (NKJV) Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
©Effie Darlene Barba, 2016
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