Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Storms. We can count on them.
We can count on Him even more;
“Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.” – Matthew 8:26
Hold Fast
“Well, it’s always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn’t get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why the ship is built. Politics isn’t just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.”
— Sarah Palin – August 29, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio after being tapped by Sen. John McCain to be his running mate.
https://www.npr.org/2008/08/29/94118910/transcript-palins-speech-in-dayton-ohio
Exactly what I needed to hear today.
Thanks, Don.
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Well, I have discussed my storms ad nauseum here. I must admit that I don’t feel one bit better or that they have benefited me in any way. It has been corrosive to my marriage and my younger son’s well being. Immaturity coupled with obsessive compulsive disorders and dabbling in a bit of Satanism….feels like a tornado, a hurricane and an earthquake.
I think sometimes the fights we fight are for others.
Winning for others, but not for ourselves, like
Nelson at Trafalgar.
Or losing with dignity, like Lee at Appomattox, to prevent further woe.
Greatness does not always wear the laurels.