{"id":37253,"date":"2025-10-08T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37253"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:36:16","slug":"god-mend-thine-every-flaw-and-other-woke-church-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37253","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;God mend thine every flaw&#8221; and other woke church music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37204\">&#8220;I will post this forward&#8230;.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nNext post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37276\">I&#8217;m feeling lucky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harry is an information omnivore. Over 19 years he written about every topic on the list to the right. For more, use this blog&#8217;s search function (upper right). Or email Harry a question here: <a href=\"mailto:harrywelty@charter.net\">harrywelty@charter.net<\/a>. Or ask any AI engine to summarize Harry Welty. Or read Harry&#8217;s campaign flyer. Or google &#8220;Harry Welty&#8217;s snow sculptures&#8221;.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/images\/logos\/Snowbizzlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54839397873_37e22bae22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIf you can&#8217;t read this first page of my just printed flyers A larger version of this and its back page can more easily be read on <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37201\">this post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above you see the front side of one of the 4,000 flyers I carted home this morning after my Church Men&#8217;s group met. A few of the men were surprised and pleased to see me standing but most didn&#8217;t know I&#8217;d broken my back and pelvis three weeks ago. I walked in flawlessly but when my better half spent $1.50 to park at UMD a little afterwards for me to carry my 4,000 flyers home (8 reams worth of paper) I was limping under the strain. It will be interesting to see how well I can walk up and down 21st Avenue E this afternoon knocking on doors to pass them out. <\/p>\n<p>I view myself as a protector of children and the flyer mentions this. (I wrote it) I also sell myself rather grandly as wishing to be &#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s worst nightmare in northern Minnesota.&#8221; Why would I do that? Well because <strong>America the Beautiful&#8217;s<\/strong> second verse spells out what&#8217;s wrong with Donald Trump&#8217;s view of America as he ransacks our history museums the same way he erases evidence of his likely serial rapes. He has probably avoided paying Jean Carrol the $85 million awarded her by the courts. He&#8217;s also doing his best to erase Jeffery Epstein from history but that history is catching up with him like <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37091\">this tale from &#8220;Katie&#8221;<\/a> that I&#8217;m inclined to believe.<\/p>\n<p>The familiar song America the Beautiful acknowledges what every true American who isn&#8217;t a cosmetician popping pimples knows. We aren&#8217;t perfect. The song which is as patriotic as you can get admits our imperfection by calling on God to &#8220;mend our every flaw.&#8221; She will have a lot of mending to do after President &#8220;47&#8221; finishes his second term of office.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the lyrics. Every verse is a rebuke to Donald Trump&#8217;s brand of self important braggadocio,<\/p>\n<p><strong>America the Beautiful<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O beautiful for spacious skies,<br \/>\nFor amber waves of grain,<br \/>\nFor purple mountain majesties<br \/>\nAbove the fruited plain!<br \/>\nAmerica! America!<br \/>\nGod shed His grace on thee,<br \/>\nAnd crown thy good with brotherhood<br \/>\nFrom sea to shining sea!<\/p>\n<p>O beautiful for pilgrim feet<br \/>\nWhose stern impassioned stress,<br \/>\nA thoroughfare for freedom beat<br \/>\nAcross the wilderness!<br \/>\nAmerica! America!<br \/>\nGod mend thine every flaw,<br \/>\nConfirm thy soul in self-control,<br \/>\nThy liberty in law!<\/p>\n<p>O beautiful for heroes proved<br \/>\nIn liberating strife,<br \/>\nWho more than self their country love<br \/>\nAnd mercy more than life!<br \/>\nAmerica! America!<br \/>\nMay God thy gold refine<br \/>\nTill all success be nobleness,<br \/>\nAnd every gain divine!<\/p>\n<p>O beautiful for patriot dream<br \/>\nThat sees beyond the years,<br \/>\nThine alabaster cities gleam<br \/>\nUndimmed by human tears!<br \/>\nAmerica! America!<br \/>\nGod shed His grace on thee,<br \/>\nAnd crown thy good with brotherhood<br \/>\nFrom sea to shining sea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post: &#8220;I will post this forward&#8230;.&#8221; Next post: I&#8217;m feeling lucky Harry is an information omnivore. 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