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Fredrick Douglass

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“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” – Frederick Douglass

George Washington

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1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America on this day April 30.

“The harder the conflict , the greater the triumph”

George Washington

This is one of my early drawings – soft pencil on watercolor paper. What strikes me about this man is his suffering and his humility. He was in constant pain, I read somewhere because of his ill fitting false teeth, And yet even in the pain he did incredible feats, crossing the Delaware, leading countless battles, suffering great loss of loved ones, becoming the first president of a new country, he had tremendous responsibility and courage, all with an equivalent of a sixth grade education and field training. His father died when he was young leaving most of what he had to Washington’s older half brothers. Though the cards were stacked against him he rose agains and again, not because of hand outs but because of freedom to do so because of desire and resolve. consistently he made decisions that were unlike the expectation of those around him, turning down the request to be king and freeing the slaves he owned was not the popular thing to do, He didn’t do what was popular but what was right, he pushed through pain, he led without degree and he survived without wealth. It is to this man and his unlikely character we owe so much as Americans. Anyone read a good biography I would love to find one on his life?

“ if freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we gmay be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

George Washington

C.S. Lewis

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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

― C.S. Lewis

Born in Ireland in 1899 Lewis was a scholar an author and most of all he was a man of strong Christian faith. You probably know his most beloved children’s books the chronicles of Narnia, but did you know he wrote over 30 other books? That he held degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, that the author of the Hobbit, J.R. Tolkien, was one of his best friends and that as a child C.S. Lewis was at an atheist? Lewis lost his mother at a young age and didn’t marry until his old age and then lost his wife a few short years later. Yet through all of these challenges Lewis was able to not only speak to his generation of love, joy, faith and truth but to our generation! Recently I read a book by Lewis entitled the “problem of Pain” it’s a short book and quite theological but I would highly recommend it to any who have wrestled with this question: how can God be all good and all powerful?

C.S. Lewis – “God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”