Yes We Can?

Just recently I listened to President Obama's 'Yes We Can' speech. In his speech he states;

"In the unlikely story of America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of the people.

Yes we can.

It was the creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

Yes we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights.

Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can...

Yes we cant to justice and equality. Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity. Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair the world. Yes we can."

They are amazing and inspirational words, but, contrary to what president Obama said, it is a false hope. A hope in one's own strength, a hope in one's own knowledge. And was not the creed which was 'written into the founding documents which determined the destiny of [this] nation' In God We Trust? How much truer a hope is this, a hope in something bigger than self, something bigger than any enemy which could come against us, somebody through which 'we can,' and have prevailed against all odds.
Wouldn't it be beautiful if the speech read instead;

"In the unlikely story of America, when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of the people.

In God we trust.

It was the creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

In God we trust.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights.

In God we trust.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

In God we trust...

In God we trust to justice and equality. In God we trust to opportunity and prosperity. In God we trust to heal this nation. In God we trust to repair the world. In God we trust."

And instead of hundreds, possibly even thousands of men and women chanting 'Yes we can,' at the end of his speech they chanted 'In God we trust,' and instead of his speech ending;

"And together we wil bigin the next great chapter in America's story with these three words which will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea-Yes we can."

they ended as this blog entry will.

Together with God, we will continue America's great story, with a creed with which she was founded that will ring louder and louder from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea- IN GOD WE TRUST!