Blessed Is the Nation Whose God Is the Lord – (Psalms 33:12)
by Terry Broome
One of our most moving patriotic hymns cites the beauty of America – A beauty that all who have traveled across the continent surely recognize. Katherine Lee Bates stood atop Pike’s Peak and scanned the sweep of the land, then wrote of the “purple mountain majesties,” and the “amber waves of grain.” She concluded that God Shed His Grace on this Land — A vast unexplored wilderness that, in an astonishingly short period, grew into a great nation.