One Nation UNDER GOD!
Day 232 of Photo Inspirations — One Nation UNDER GOD
Aw! The 50s…Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, I Love Lucy, Ozzie & Harriet, Leave It To Beaver, Father Knows Best, Poodle Skirts, Hula Hoops!!!
What a great, Be-Bop-A-Lula time we had Saturday night — celebrating the Sock Hop days of the 50s at my community, Hyde Park at Tulsa Hills. I did my best “Olivia Newton John” impersonation from Grease. As one of the hosts of the event, it was such a treat to research some of the 50s memories, like those I mentioned above, in black and white TV, “Name That Tune” show (we played it at our party), hula hooping (I won that one! LOL!), bubble gum blowing contest, etc. I am a Baby Boomer, one of the record number of babies (3.4 million) born in the U.S. (must have been a lot of cold nights — LOL!).
Goodness — have times ever changed the way of doing things since then. Compared to today, it’s a wonder we survived those days, and are even here to tell the story! My fellow 50s generation will recall that, as toddlers, no car seats, instead, we stood by our parents and what stopped us from being thrown into the windshield when they stopped the car quickly, was their automatic arm. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles. When we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or even shoes. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because……WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! We didn’t have video games, no 99+ channels on cable, no DVD movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no computers, no Internet, BUT…….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
Lots of blast-from-the-past memories, but I wouldn’t trade those days for these days for anything — particularly when it comes to child safety in cars and otherwise, and brilliant technology that makes life so much easier. There’s just no sense living in the past and thinking about the way things were. There’s just too much to celebrate about the way things ARE, and that God intended us to be here and be fully engaged AT THIS TIME.
But there’s also paramount things that should NEVER be changed. One of the most critically important decisions that was made in 1954 was the addition of “One Nation Under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. And in 1957, our currency was printed with “In God We Trust” words on it.
Yesterday, my FB post was about those words: “In God We Trust”. Yes, there are those who want to stamp out God from our schools and public places. But, here’s the deal — emperors have tried to destroy those words, philosophies have tried to stamp them out, tyrants have tried to wash them from the face of the earth with the very blood of those who claimed it, yet, it still stands. “In God We Trust” is still our non-negotiable. It is indelibly printed in our hearts, our spirits and our minds. Now, let’s pray that our nation NEVER concedes to letting it go.
“Blessed is the Nation is “whose God is the Lord.” Psalm 33:12
Psalm 100:5; ‘For the Lord is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness TO ALL GENERATIONS.”