This isn’t a bad one.
“May God continue to shed His grace on the United States of America.” —@POTUS http://t.co/14Z3HnNi8v
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
Not a bad bit of speech-writing, either.
As a nation, out of this terrible tragedy, God has visited grace upon us, for he has allowed us to see where we’ve been blind. He has given us the chance, where we’ve been lost, to find our best selves. We may not have earned it, this grace, with our rancor and complacency, and short-sightedness and fear of each other — but we got it all the same. He gave it to us anyway. He’s once more given us grace. But it is up to us now to make the most of it, to receive it with gratitude, and to prove ourselves worthy of this gift.
To tie the religious discussion of grace (appropriate for a President only because he was speaking to a group of his own co-religionists, in their church, from a pulpit) to the words of "America, the Beautiful," was brilliant. No need, then, to go on to say out loud, "And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."