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Thank God for the Common Man
As I sit at my computer to share a thought with you, it is Presidents' Day in America. When I was growing up there was no such thing. We celebrated George Washington's birthday on Feb. 22 as a national holiday and observed Abraham Lincoln's birthday as a state holiday on Feb. 12.
The month of February was vigorously devoted to studying these two great patriarchs of the American experience. Indeed, they are men whose shadows of greatness touch us down to our very day.
Somehow under the innocuous banner of the all-inclusive "Presidents' Day," something is sadly lost. In celebrating the inclusiveness of all and the mediocrity of some, the deeds of the daring can go unnoticed or become lost in the haze of time.
A precious kernel of truth
But one thing I don't want lost on our reading audience is a little bit of insight shared by President Lincoln. It's a precious kernel of truth with tremendous biblical overtones to consider. He once said, "God must be a lover of the common people, or He would not have made so many of them."
The word common means ordinary or, as Webster's Dictionary defines it, "unrefined." Yet Lincoln by his statement places the common man on a pedestal and dedicates him to God's affection.
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Humility:
- _What Is Faith? (LF)
- _What Is True Leadership?
- _Thanksgiving: A Timeless Lesson
- _A Lesson for All Time
- _How to Seek God's Will
- _'Become Like Little Children'
- _I Stand Corrected - Or Do I?
- _Through Their Eyes
- _Does Arrogance Really Work?
- _Humility of Mind and Action
- _Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
- _The Meek, the Lowly and the Wise
- _What Is True Leadership?
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