Flex Those Muscles

When I pick up a log to set it in place I think of myself as a strong person. This begs the question, in what does my true strength lie? Is it in the bones and muscles or in something else? Ultimately our strength comes from God. 

For those of us who may be lacking faith, Robert Hutchins had some thoughts about what makes America strong, he said, "We have repeated to ourselves so much of late the slogan, 'America must be strong,' that we have forgotten what strength is. We appear to believe that strength consists of masses of men and machines. I do not deny that they have their role.

 

"But surely the essential ingredients of strength are trained intelligence, love of country, the understanding of its ideals, and such devotion to those ideals that they become a part of the thought and life of every citizen." 

It is time that we dust off our history books and find out what the American ideals are, before they are lost completely. 

Just a thought from the chainsaw carpenter.