Good Sunday Morning!
1. Question – What is written by you in the margins
of your well-worn Bible as you pass on?
2. Thought – The day my father first stood on the
west side of the Capitol to take his oath of office,
America was a deeply anguished, divided nation. We had
gone through the long national nightmare of the Iranian
hostage crisis. We had endured years of oil embargoes,
double-digit inflation, unemployment, national malaise,
and entrenched pessimism. America seemed weak and
impotent, hemmed in by enemies, a once-great power
succumbing to the inevitability of decline. We were
divided over what to do about the Soviet Union, about our
hollow military, about our deepening economic crisis. But
over the next eight years, Ronald Reagan brought us all
together.
The day of his inauguration as the 40th president of the
United States, my father placed his left hand upon the
well-worn, well marked Bible of his late mother, raised
his right hand, and took the oath of office as prescribed
by the Constitution. The Bible was open, and his hand
rested on the words God spoke to King Solomon in 2
Chronicles 7:14:
If My people who are called by My name will humble
themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and
will forgive their sin and heal their land.
In the margin next to that verse, his mother
had written, A most wonderful verse for the healing of the
nations. (The City on a Hill by Michael Reagan)
If nothings in your margin, maybe you should start
today!