Patriotic Vision
What is patriotism? Is vision part of being patriotic?
What is patriotism?
When I first heard of being patriotic, I always associated it with the red, white, and blue of the United States of America flag. That's only because the U. S. is where I grew up, and it is what I learned about. However, when I looked patriotism up in the dictionary, it talked about one who enthusiastically guards their country. So I learned that patriotism and being patriotic can be associated with any country.
What is vision?
The kind of vision that I'm referring to here is in regards to having a mission or purpose; an idea of where you would like to be and why.
When Betsy Ross designed the first flag for the United States, it had thirteen stars and thirteen stripes, both to represent the thirteen colonies; they weren't called states yet. But the other message of this flag, was the vision of being united. The stars and stripes were used to show that each colony had a say; they were all equally important.
A New Vision
Can countries be equally important?
Part of any country's history is having some sort of vision. The United States began because people had a vision of not living under the church'es rule. Austrailia founded their sense of patriotism when prisioners where shipped from a far away land, and they decided to make things work.
Sometimes, I think with all the celebrations and memorials of our history, that we can get too caught up in what has been. I think it's time to change our focus a bit, and to think more about where we'd like to go.
With the patriotic flower design that I created, the thought came to me that it's a flower. It's suppose to blossom and grow.
So I would like to think that our country, your country, and any country can blossom and grow. Our countries can have new visions.
I would like to get away from the thought of having to guard or defend, and move more towards thoughts of countries being equally important.
One way to have a new vision is to help envision it.
Many things that have ever been created began first with a desire or thought. Once that thought was fostered and nourished, then the people knew the action to take.
It is important to know where you'd like to go before you can know how to get there.
Would you like to join me in a new vision for our countries?
Would you like to help envision it?
No, I don't know if that would work...
Yes, I'd love to join you in a new vision, of countries being equally important...
Patriotic Flower Shirts to help Support Thoughts
Of A New Vision
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There are lots of ways to express patriotism.
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What country do you live in? You can expand further if you like on your vision. Your additional comments are also welcome.
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my sacred shrine.
But other hearts in other lands are beating,
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
Oh hear my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.