For Lady Gaga

Larry Poland's Master Media prayer calendar owns a sweet spot inside my Bible. It get's misplaced from time to time, but mostly, for now, aiming prayer at the souls of celebrities is a daily obligation; an urgent idea, and I'm grateful to Jacque Granger, Poland and their small staff for calling Americans to their knees to beg God's mercy for the souls and situations of celebrities, and to repent of the mediatrash our nation exports overseas, where our movies 'sell' the (mostly correct) idea that our morally degenerate nation deserves to become a byword (II Kings 17:20).

Prayer for Lady Gaga went up July 13.  When a musician is listed, an old Lucille Ball prayer re-emerges: the day Ball died, I begged God to use her last iconic breath to preach freedom to the unborn... Didn't happen, obviously; but the idea stuck, and I persist in begging God that prominent figures 'out' their pro-life sensitivities without fear of censure.

July 13 was no different. What a wave of refreshment would pour out over silly teenagers world-wide if their champion of counter-cultural everything annoyed NARAL with an in-your-face pronouncement.

Got up off my knees and went straight to a shelf of scrapbooks and old photos.  Inside a filebox, I located the photo I was looking for, taken November, 1996, the day I found out that some cultural icons are more committed to the lie of "safe and legal abortion" than others.

Left: Peter Yarrow imparts blessings on my children.
I didn't know to intervene.

It was among a set of PeterPaul&Mary poses taken at a Debra Bowen fundraiser.  Not that we supported this democrat running for state office. No, Grampa did. He had concert tickets and an inside scoop on the follow-up reception with the famous trio.  When it came my turn to think of something pithy to say while being introduced to Mary Travers,  I prayed a small plea to think of something original. So, I asked her when she and 'the boys' were going to write the definitive pro-life song that would sway all the world to support laws protecting the unborn... "Never," she said. "We don't believe that way...." I said something about voters, and then she threw in, "Well, I hope your kids never learn to vote!" With a jerkflip of her fake blonde hair, she turned to greet the next group.

That, I thought, was not very 'original' of her.

I've decided to tuck that group shot (lower right photo) into my Master Media fold-out for safe keeping / interceding. Travers can dismiss me in '96, but eternity bids.

My "If I Had a Hammer" prayers since then mainly concern Noel Paul Stookey.  I've heard he's one of the good guys, unlike his two hippy songster compatriots. Who knows. He seemed somehow... greater, taller, bigger, nicer (bald & kneeling, top left photo).

LORD Jesus, have mercy on these merry three. Bring them to eye-opening repentance for magic dragon breath that cast a death trance over our generation.  In your HOLY name, I beg.  And lift up the crayoned eyes of Ms. Gaga? Give sight, truth, repentance. Light.

AMEN.

Pants Splayed, America Praised?

July 4th Flowers, spent.
All that's left, a sunbleached tent,
Red, white and blue decor hangs on,
Ice chest gaping, beer all gone.

Coverage of the beaches, next;
Heavy hurt, my old lament:
Teeming, unclad women. Ren't
Of anything that marks good sense.

Nakedness, unmitigated.
Culture dies, free-dominated.

It's that thing they do, because they can; fly open, also ran.
Beneath: Memorialized names to scan.

For This THEY Died. And Lived.

Awaits, this flag, for her "day of deliverance & devotion to God."
I love you John & A. Adams. (Alexandria, VA 11/2010)

Like nothing we will ever know

Did monolithic Statesmen show

In heart and deed and word bestowed,

Ignited flame, 20 annum old.

Through tumult of their apex risen

Launching us beneath a heaven

Prone to bless their sackcloth, shaven

Sacrifice.

Only remain embers, thus

Only probed by them. Not us,

Who's bawdy shallowness untrussed

Reveal in daily discourse, pus.

Now, the nations' poor here bidden,

Yet betrayed by wild lies hidden,

Gored by demon self sown freedoms;

Disabled by their cowed creeds striven. 

Only by some miracle

Can there ever be a cure

For deceptive, basal lures

of televised & world webbed worms.

Have mercy, LORD, but, 

It's your turn.

Wonderment? Or. 

End times scorn.

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That July 4th become a Day of Remembrance, allowing solemnity and brave orations lauding the obedience of those DUTY BOUND Men.

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Independence Day notes from PPT*

The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. On July 4, the delegates voted to accept it. 

On the day between, July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail: 

"I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty."

· Independence Day was first celebrated in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776.

· The Liberty Bell sounded from the tower of Independence Hall that day summoning citizens to gather for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon.

· When John Hancock had signed the Declaration of Independence with that well-known bold signature, he is supposed to have said, “King George ought to be able to read that!”

· The first public Fourth of July event at the White House occurred in 1804.

· The names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were withheld from the public for more than six months to protect those who signed. If independence had not been achieved, the treasonable act of the signers would have, by law, resulted in their deaths.

· It was not until 1941 that Congress declared the 4^th of July as a federal legal holiday.

· In July 1776 the estimated number of people living in the newly independent nation was 2.5 million. 

*Presidential Prayer Team.org