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Lord you spoke into existence the heavens and the earth
Created nations, people and gave America birth
Since 1776 America has been a free land
Our forefathers recognized the creation of Your hand
Many prayers for America have reached your ears
You have kept her safe throughout the years
You have raised up leaders for our nation
For a season and a time them You did station
Now it is the year two thousand and four
America needs your presence even more

America needs the Lord to heal our land
Please, O Lord, stretch out Your healing hand
Without Your presence America would fall
Because of this unto You we do call

Since America’s beginning, we have had many wars
We have lost many Americans, boys and girls
O Lord, don’t let those deaths be in vain
Comfort their loved ones and heal their pain
From Massachusetts to Oregon state
Upon the prayers of Your people You do wait
Your eyes roam to and fro throughout the country
To show Yourself strong to those who pray to thee

You said if you shall ask you shall receive
Deliver America, O Lord, from those who do deceive
In the troublesome days that lie ahead
Give us day by day our daily bread
America is still under Your amazing grace
Let us not forsake to seek Your face
A great awakening is what we need
To Your Word, O Lord, America must heed
Greed and strife has a strong hold
In the land of the free and the home of the bold

Copyright 2004, Irvin L. Rozier

About the Author

preacher, retired military, author of My Walk with the Lord, www.selahbooks.com

What I love about the notion of the world as my temple? It means that I, as a human being, don’t have to go anywhere, and I don’t have to get away from the world to do my spiritual work. I don’t have to escape. I don’t have to be secluded. I find that so refreshing; not to be a monk, is my path. It’s a very curious thing, because there is a time in your day maybe when you’re sitting on the pot when you are naturally secluded. That’s a wonderful time to pull out the piece of paper with the circle drawn on it, and set it on your legs in front of you, and just kind of gaze at that for a while. If, in your mind, you want to have a sense of yourself created as the Deity in the center of that circle, fine, great, go for it. If you want to do a little chant, that’s really great to do. Basically, you’re right. You don’t have to be a recluse. You don’t have to wall yourself off. In fact, the teachings of The Everyday Sanyasin very strongly say, “Don’t wall yourself off.”

Yet there are opportunities not just in the bathroom, but also in the shower, or just sitting alone in a room by myself, even if I have a large family. There’s also taking a walk by myself, going off and taking a nice stroll. Even in town, I could be alone with myself, walking down the street. There are many opportunities to have the sense of seclusion without saying to yourself, “No, I can’t do my work here, I’m with my family; I’m at work; it’s Saturday and I’m supposed to be mowing the yard.” None of those restrictions apply to the Everyday Sanyasin.