Russia – Religious Freedom, Sep. 26, 1990

On this date, 9/26/1990, the Russian “Supreme

Soviet” ended decades of religious repression. 

It gave a new declaration, forbidding the

government to interfer in religious activities.  

It also granted citizens the right to study religion in

homes and private schools.

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May I Have Your Hand?

Daryl & Laura’s Wedding Song 

May I have your hand and will you walk beside me,

Through all life’s day, all of life’s day?

Will you be here,

Whenever I fear the next bend in the road?

Will you be strong,

When I’m tempted to go wrong?

Will you be my best friend, to the very, very, end?

Oh tell me, Oh tell me, Oh my love.

 

Refrain

Yes, yes, my love, Yes to all the above.

With God’s help I’ll prove tomorrow

All these words in joy and sorrow.

Yes, yes, my love,

We’ll press on through life toward heaven,

Forgiving and forgiven.

Yes, yes, my love.

 

May I have your hand and will you stand beside me,

Through tomorrows, all tomorrows?

Will you have trust

When one of us must and faith seems so low?

Will you press upward,

When our friends move downward?

Will you for Christ be spent, and will you be content?

Oh tell me, Oh tell me, Oh my love.  – eab, 3/90 

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The third child-third Wedding Song, God be praised.   One or more heard their song sung with damp eyes.  Sat down in Ponchatoula living room after church on Lord’s Day and Heather picked out notes as I “wrote”/sung it into existence.

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