We had a family birthday dinner/4th of July party last night, all eight of us age 4 to 61 gathered around the big dining room table for bbq sandwiches with coleslaw on them (of course), baked beans, homemade potato salad, watermelon and key lime pie.
This was my daughter-in-law's first Independence Day celebration as an American citizen.
The most poignant part of the evening was when we all took turns (except for the 4 year old), reading the entire Declaration of Independence, pausing after each paragraph to discuss its meaning. Not having read it in a few years, I had forgotten that in the last paragraph, there are two references to God:
"appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions", and
"with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence".
It's probably just a matter of time until the ACLU forbids this document from being read in a public arena!
My 14 year old granddaughter seemed especially caught up in the reading, even though she balked at the beginning. We plan to make reading that on the 4th of July a family tradition!
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