IN GOD WE TRUST

In God We Trust.
Four very small words yet contain so much power and meaning. These words are a daily part of our lives and most of us just overlook the words and their significance. Very few of us, including me until I researched this, know where and how these words came to be. In 1814 these words were written by Francis Scott Key as a variation of the original Star Spangled Banner. In the last stanza Key writes a variation of the phrase: “And this be our motto: In God is our trust. And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Francis Scott Key was a young district attorney in Washington D.C. when the British Army invaded Washington and Baltimore. During this time is when the American flag was first made and hung proudly. While the British attacked Baltimore in the night, Key began writing a poem, but it wasn’t until morning that Key saw the flag still waving, and that’s how the national anthem came to be. Nevertheless, it wasn’t until 1864 that those very words, In God We Trust, were adopted into our Nation and our currency.I can’t help but wonder if any one even knows that IN GOD WE TRUST is our country’s motto or where these words can be seen every single day. Most of us take these small powerful words crumple them up and shove them in our pockets. Whatever GOD you trust or even believe, doesn’t matter. What is important is that we all acknowledge our Nation and Freedom was built on the belief that there really is a “HIGHER POWER”. I believe and I trust in my GOD and the Freedom that we have accustomed ourselves to, thank in part by our country’s founder and soldiers.