Thoughts to think about

History is usually written by the victor, but it is also written by individual witnesses,  in their diaries, journals, and in their families’ story.

The best history considers all sides of the event(s) being written about. So we can see all sides other than just one perspective. When we  stop learning or teaching our histories of our families, our cities, our states, and our nation’s, we lose our common connections among ourselves.

As we are taught and learn of history, it is said that we can avoid repeating its follicles. On the other hand, when we refuse to learn or teach our histories, our children will not learn lessons from the past, and they will be more app to repeat their mistakes. Also, we as a society lose touch with our culture, our traditions, our respect, or pride for what came before us.

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French journalist, commented in Democracy in America, “Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

In writing on rights in our Constitution, Alexis de Tocqueville also worte “It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom. That’s dependency…” When we don’t know our history, then we’d expect the federal government to provide us with whatever rights they permit.

Which also gives them the ability to remove these right depending on whose in office. We have a responsibility to protect these rights for ourselves and our families.

In knowing their history, our Founding Fathers knew they did not want to live under a tyrannical government. They knew from experiences that there were natural rights given from God and enshrined them into our founding documents as the Bill of Rights, also known as the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

Let us learn of these amendments and the history around them. Then let us teach them to our children, grandchildren and greatgrand children. So, they can learn from our history. What God has granted us which government can not take away unless we allow it to.

Abraham Lincoln said, during the Gettysburg’s address; “…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

I pray that the evil in our nation will be defeated by those who believe that this country should not be governed by those who seek to destroy it and learn that freedom comes when we learn and know our history along with seeking for God’s influence in our lives.

D. Charles Wilson 09-29-2024