It’s a prayer, an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938 and what Dad used to sing when he was fixing things to refrain from using words he didn’t want young children to hear. Unfortunately, many Americans don’t feel blessed these days, even those of us who are.Jamie Glasser, the heroine of my July Love Inspired Romance is
one of those who doesn’t feel blessed—not any more. She’s lost her husband to the war in Afghanistan,
lost her faith to her grief and had to go back to work full time, leaving
her less time with her three children. To top it off her teenage son keeps getting
in trouble. And her son’s high school guidance counselor, retired Air
Force Lieutenant Colonel Eli Payton, isn’t helping on any of those fronts,
even though he thinks he is.We’ve all experienced some of Jamie’s feelings of not being blessed. But despite our country’s flaws, the United States still offers us may freedoms and opportunities that many other people around the world can only dream of. We are blessed to be Americans.
As Independence Day approaches, what blessings are you counting?
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