These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

The Drive to Do Good

How often do we lose our peace
because of something we forgot?
Responsibilities increase
for those, who think, "It is my lot."

The Founding Fathers did their best
to 'stablish great and godly Home,
that this new Place would stand the test,
alleviate the need to roam.

The drive to do the good we know
impacts all of the life we live,
but what at last will there we show
when our last breath we finally give?

America, America,
'tis built on Honor from the start.
The good we do in lasting thus
bespeaks the trueness of each heart.

"Dear George, the King of our first Land,
remember well our many pleas,
that caused us withstand you by bands.
Relieved our yolk, blest Freedom frees.

"As thy dear children we were then,
until provoked us overmuch.
Still colonies we might have been,
but now our sovereignty, don't touch."

The yolk of sin still burdens souls,
who are not right with God Above.
The death of Christ to make us whole,
His resurrection frees to love.

The independence of this day,
it points to greater freedom's cause.
Dependence makes us blest, okay
in He, Who owns our lasting awes.

by Jay O’Toole
on July 4th, 2024