I am so graced to write from within the United States of America and its promised protection of humanity’s God-given rights. Still, I do so with the understanding that both nation and promise always lie within our power to “nobly save, or meanly lose” as Abraham Lincoln wrote within the midst of civil war. So graced means so responsible to best exercise those rights in the service of God and man to seek to realize humanity’s excellence. It behooves us then to reflect on the founding of nation and promise, in particular the following words from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Quite a lot to chew on. And all of it worthy of reflection. But let’s just start with truths. So confident were the founders in what is next expressed that they refer to them not only as truths, but self-evident truths.
Truths are elements of the Truth which encompasses what is real, honest, whole.
Here we will seek the Truth the better to live by it, that we “may have life and have it abundantly.” –Life
He who came for that purpose also promised that “the truth will make you free.” –Liberty
And with “truth” and “life” we also find “the way.” –Pursuit of Happiness.
Ultimately it all comes down to Love. And what more could we sinners ask for in this temporal phase of life?
God bless,
P. A. Ritzer
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