“O beautiful for heroes proved
in liberating strife,
Who more than self their
country loved, and mercy more than life!” America, the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates)
Independence Day. While we, as a nation, cannot agree on much
(anything?) these days, perhaps on this holiday weekend we can agree that those
who put their names to the Declaration of Independence are heroes. With the
stoke of a pen they set in motion the creation of a government of, by and for the
people.
The signers understood that
their mission was urgent, and that they would die…either together or separately
for their beliefs. Heroic courage.
These are they who more than
self their country loved.
Who are today’s heroes? Who rises
up to risk their life and security for the sake of preserving freedom?
For this grand experiment in forming
a more perfect union to continue heroes are still needed.
But the hardest part of
preserving democracy is persuading ‘we the people’ to follow heroes, not pretenders.
On this 4th of
July, pray for God’s blessing on our
nation: that we the people will be wise enough to know and follow the heroes
proved in the struggle to keep America beautiful.
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