America The Beautiful : Ray Charles '91

  
 This is one of my favorite renditions of America The Beautiful!  Nobody does it better than Ray Charles!  God bless his soul!  God bless America on this 4th of July Independence Day!  God bless you all!

Oh beautiful, for heroes proved,
In liberating strife,
Who more than self, our country loved,
And mercy more than life,
America, America, may God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain devined.
And you know when I was in school,
We used to sing it something like this, listen here:
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain,
But now wait a minute, I'm talking about
America, sweet America,
You know, God done shed his grace on thee,
He crowned thy good, yes he did, in a brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.
You know, I wish I had somebody to help me sing this
(America, America, God shed his grace on thee)
America, I love you America, you see,
My God he done shed his grace on thee,
And you oughta love him for it,
Cause he, he, he, he, crowned thy good,
He told me he would, with brotherhood,
(From sea to shining sea).
Oh Lord, oh Lord, I thank you Lord
(Shining sea).

God Bless America! Happy 4th of July Independence Day!

We declared our independence from England to be a free nation.  We are the United States of America.  We declare our independence to continue to be free!  Here are a few songs that express my gratitude.

Thank you for watching and listening to each music video.  It expresses what I feel today as we celebrate our Independence Day RIGHT here in the good old U.S.A.  God bless You and your family today!

Enjoy America's freedom!  It's a gift from God!


Thankfulness is what we need to be everyday to God for the country that we live in and for those who fight for it and for those who have died for it! 



And I personally thank my God Jesus Christ.  For it is from this great nation that we are free to worship Him.  Free from sin and free from religion.  And from this freedom we are able to send the Gospel to all nations.  Not to bind it up in religion and oppress it as religion does, but to simply offer the plan of Salvation and give people a choice in what we as Christians believe to be the way to heaven and have eternal life.  It's your choice, their choice.  Thank God for America!  We couldn't live this free anywhere else on earth.


Want to talk about freedom?  We have it all RIGHT here in America! 

Star Spangled Banner 7 yr old Rhema Marvanne

Happy Birthday America!