“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Thomas Merton
I am no longer my own, but thine.
Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed by thee or laid aside for thee,
exalted for thee or brought low for thee.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal.
And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,thou art mine, and I am thine. So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
Let it be ratified in heaven.”
Amen.
John Wesley
Two books for you: one for Greek and one for English
1. Greek to Me (Lyle Story)
2. Woe is I (Patricia O’Conner)
Great books. As a product of the SC Public School System, I ain’t never diagrammed no sentence neither.
This is very important, because many advocates of big, intrusive government use the “in order that” statement of the preamble to justify all manner of unconstitutional programs, when that statement is one of intention, not authorization.
typo in the diagram, should be “ensure”, not “insure”
The word Order isn’t capitalized in your diagram… why not?
Richard,
1. I didn’t make the diagram! That’s why!
2. It appears that this diagram maintains capitals for nouns and that it doesn’t interpret order (as a part of this prepositional phrase) to be a noun.
3. It appears that the writers of the preamble either had different grammatical conventions or they wanted to emphasize these capitalized words.
1. k.
2. Nouns or not, changing capitalizations reinterprets sentence intent.
3. All words carry emphasis, so to British words.
a. Why, in as much, did the framers write ‘the U.S.’ vs ‘the U.S.A’ (as diagrammed by someone), …two different institutions?
b. And, it was interesting that ‘the’ wasn’t treated the same as the other ‘the’s’ above (again, as diagrammed by someone).
just a thought
You should un-capitalize British–it’s not proper!
We run into this in Biblical diagramming and interpretation, too. Changing the words is not a good practice.
a. this is an interesting point. Also note that the people “OF” the United States ordain and establish the constitution “FOR” the United States of America. This may point to a change in condition because of the Constitution. This may indicate that because they are already of the U.S., that it is fitting that they write this for land that is theirs. It may be that kind of statement.
As for the use of USA at th end, it is either a dramatic closing or, like I said above, a change in condition. I’m not exactly sure.
b. It is interesting and I’m not sure why it is diagrammed that way. Any thoughts?
what are the dummest term can you put thr preamle in
I have a strange request.
I have an impossible sentence to diagram. And I was wondering if you could help.
“Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut.”
I’m pretty sure there should be a comma after “on,” but there wasn’t one.