Hortense Eugenie Beardsley Daniels

My great great grandmother

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There will always be people who for some reason or no reason don’t like you. Don’t take it personally. Accept it and move on. Find people who do like you and share yourself with them. The most priceless gift you can give anyone is the affection God offers them through you. SC

Their memories are my heritage. Their achievements are my pride. Their dreams became my legacy, As through the years they died.

FAMILY

As I sit here in the stillness,

While the crackling embers glow,

My mind casts dancing shadows

Of glad days long ago.  

I recall my granddad’s whiskered grin,

His white and wispy hair,

And Grandma humming blissfully

From a creaking rocking chair.

I see my mother in her youth

And Daddy, young and trim.

I rarely ever walk these fields

That I don’t think of him.

Their council was the granite block

On which my faith took hold.

Their favor was the prize I sought,

As others might seek gold.  

Throughout my life I sought to please

The family of my youth.

Their convictions shaped what I believe.

Their faith became my truth.

Their memories are my heritage.

Their achievements are my pride.        

Their dreams became my legacy,

As through the years they died.

And when my robe of flesh drops free,

And I breathe my final breath,

Their faith shall bear my whispered prayer,

As, trusting God, I close my eyes in death.

Shannon Thomas Casebeer

Memories are like muscle; exercise them and they regain their vigor, neglect them and eventually they’re gone. If your memories of growing up are fading, I encourage you to refresh them with mine. “GLAD DAYS LONG AGO” SC

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I’m occasionally reined in on account of my enthusiastic patriotism, which of course is synonymous with nationalism, which, if carried too far, is just bigotry of monumental proportions. It is not my intention to promote bigotry. It is not my intention to advance the theory of American exceptionalism. My patriotism is a demonstration of my support for and my pursuit of the ideals of Liberty and Justice as prescribed by America’s Constitution, our Declaration of Independence, and many of our republics other founding documents, not because I believe my country alone embodies these ideals, but because, much like England’s Magna Carta, America’s founding documents promote the ideals to which I believe all great civilizations aspire. My patriotism is a demonstration of my pride and my appreciation for my country and the many blessings I enjoy as a citizen, not as a slight to other nations, but as an encouragement to all those who aspire to high ideals. SC

GOD’S SOLUTION

The basis for our most bitter political divisions is a handful of seemingly irreconcilable differences. These differences appear irreconcilable because the Book that challenges us to love each other despite our sins is the same book that tells us that certain practices are inexcusable.  Does the Bible offer a solution?

Ephesians 4:32 ³²Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Matthew 6:14-15 ¹⁴For if you forgive other people when they sin
against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵But
if you do not forgive others
their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Hebrews 10:17 ¹⁷Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I
will remember no more."

Isaiah 43:25 ²⁵"I, even I, am he who blots out your
transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.

1 John 1:9 ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and
will forgive us our sins
and purify us from all unrighteousness.

It would appear that in God’s eyes our differences are not irreconcilable after all. The answer is in The Book.  The answer is love, mercy, forgiveness, and obedience to God.  SC