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The first one that jumps out at me, that leaps
out at me
Is that the people are forgetting Gratitude
They are beginning to think
That their blessed planet is their due
That they in fact are responsible for this happy
state of affairs
And instead of giving gratitude and praise to God
For so abundantly blessing them
They are patting themselves on the back
Yes, well done!
They are telling themselves
We are proud of ourselves!
They are telling themselves
Look at what we have achieved!
They are telling themselves
And the woman hears these words and she is
concerned
For these are not the words she is used to
hearing
The words she had heard in her childhood
Were words of praise to the Almighty, to the
Creator
All praise and all credit were given to him
Each blessing received
Each accomplishment achieved
Each success reached
Was followed by gratitude and praise and glory to
God
To God went the glory
To God went the praise
To God went the recognition
For the people of this planet know that God is
the Creator
And all good comes from him
All good comes from him
And we thank him for all that is good
For all that we receive we thank him
For all that we are able to achieve we thank him
For of course he is our very breath, our very
life
Why we can not even live without him breathing us
How much less can we give ourselves credit
For our accomplishments
It is God himself who gives us
The graces and the qualities needed
To succeed in our endeavors
And we thank God, we thank God, we thank God
Joyfully we thank God
In lightness of heart do we joyfully thank God
Gladly, gladly, gladly do we thank God
And most of the people on the planet still do
There are just a few
But a few enough to cause this woman concern
For she knows that a few can grow to many
There is a few
And it is an ever growing few
Who are beginning to forget that God is their
source of all
ALL!
And who think that this wonderful planet that
they live on
This wonderful home of theirs
Is to their credit!
How they can think so I do not know
But think so they do
They are proud of their civilization
They are proud of how they keep the air and the
water clean
They are proud of how everyone, but everyone
Is well provided for
Yes they are proud
But they are beginning to forget that all comes
from God
And are somehow, just how I do not know
They are somehow beginning to think that the
credit is theirs
And they are justified in patting themselves on
the back
Well done old chap! They
say and yes they feel
And the woman is greatly concerned regarding this
trend
For she fears it to be the beginning of the end
And of course I can see that she is perfectly
correct
For without God there would be no air to keep
clean
Without God there would be no water to keep clean
Without God there would be no people to provide
for
Without God there would be nothing
Nothing, nothing, nothing
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