I can understand at the end of her life how Mother Teresa could write in her diary that she did not feel that she knew God at all...in this my 50th year of seeking still more spiritual growth, I can feel like I only know the right words, that I am a laggard in living those words. (I can also grin at me for putting on airs by comparing myself to Mother Teresa.)
I also wonder, speaking of comparing, if our Congress, once seen as Thomas Jefferson in his glory days, hasn't missed that those days have passed...that it is now Alexander Hamilton in his shot-dead-in-a-sordid-duel days. Going with my fantasy, we, along with Congress, need follow Jefferson/Hamilton through unto today when Jefferson's life is getting hammered as racist, and Hamilton's life has garnered a Pulitzer.
Short form, this, too, shall pass...or right is might and truth prevail.
As George Washington wrote in 1794, "Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light."
It is our...We, the People...our duty to take the pains to bring truth to light...to send honest people to Congress to see that truth ultimately prevails by taking the pains to bring it to light. Not the light as I see it, as you see it...no. As it has been proven for centuries upon centuries before us...under the Bodhi Tree, on Bunker Hill, on the beaches of Normandy, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge...on the Tree of Calvary...by the well-known and the unknown.
We, the people, are the unknown who, led by a Higher Power, can and must take the necessary pains to bring truth to light again...and again...and again. Not by our thinking, not by our wishing, but by a power greater than ourself...neither for our profit nor for our gain, but for the glory of that Higher Power
That is our calling. That is our legacy. That is God's will.
According to me.
Thank you.
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