Taps

23May/090

Admittedly, my blogging is always light. But I'm going to quasi-sign-off and be really light over the weekend while I enjoy some of the holiday time with family and friends (NOT online.) Besides, Matthew & Thomas are just getting over fevers, Suzanne now has one and is trying to beat it, and I'm laying low and drinking tons of orange juice to try to avoid it myself.

Before I go, though, I'd like to encourage you to take your families to a Memorial Day service of some type, somewhere. If weather permits, I'm going to take the boys to the one here in Granite at 1 PM on Monday.

I say this because I'm of the opinion that it's important that our kids learn the real reason for holidays like this.

Below, I include the words to Taps. I sang the first verse of this to Thomas every night at bedtime when he was a baby. I only sang the first verse, since that's all I learned by heart working at camp as a young man. But all of the verses are great, appropriate, and tell the whole story of this holiday...

Day is done, gone the sun,
From the hills, from the lake,
From the sky.
All is well, safely rest,
God is nigh.

Go to sleep, peaceful sleep,
May the soldier or sailor,
God keep.
On the land or the deep,
Safe in sleep.

Love, good night, Must thou go,
When the day, And the night
Need thee so?
All is well. Speedeth all
To their rest.

Fades the light; And afar
Goeth day, And the stars
Shineth bright,
Fare thee well; Day has gone,
Night is on.

Thanks and praise, For our days,
'Neath the sun, Neath the stars,
'Neath the sky,
As we go, This we know,
God is nigh.

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Michael loves his God, wife, 3 sons, family & friends, reading, music, & his garden. He's a music director at Holy Family Catholic Church. By day, he is a Sr. Consultant at Omniture, an Adobe company.

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