Tuesday; January 5
While it has become chic to berate and belittle many of our early national leaders, I still believe that they understood something important about humanity. One of these prolific writers and thinkers was Thomas Jefferson who included an important observation in the Declaration of Independence that stated, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness …”. Again, these words have fallen victim to a lot of criticism recently, but have you ever really taken a look at what is being said? The truth of the statement transcends the times in which they were written and screams to us today! All life – all human life – is valuable. It doesn’t matter if the person is an eighteen-year-old kid living on the street or a millionaire living in a gated community. It doesn’t matter if the person has a job, is living on welfare or off of a tru