Longwood Gardens

On Friday night I went with my friend Liza and her family to longwood Gardens, a huge garden with every imaginable kind of flower and plant. This year, they had lights after dark in the gardens. Some went as far as you can see in the woods, others were old water bottles stacked in collums. Most of the pictures of the lights Liza took, my camera didn't like taking pictures of them. The flowers, however, are all my pictures.

Let us never forget.

    Isn't it funny that after 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and every other tragedy that has befallen our nation, we have responded by growing stronger and working together against the cause of the tragedy? Even before our nation was a reality, when the British closed down Boston's industry by closing the harbor, food and supplies pored in from the other colonies. This was only the beginning of America's response to tragedy.

   

    I believe that God, in his divine Providence, has allowed the near death-blows to work for good and make the nation even stronger. I have seen how, throughout history, Americans have messed up, and my patriotism has suffered for it. But today I realized that patriotism, in my book, is really to God and country. Sure, we've messed up, but God has used us to do wonderful things for his glory, like the Berlin airlift. 

"In God We Trust".