Tough Times

I read this recently and thought it appropriate to include following my last blog.  French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said:  "I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her simple rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forest system, and it was not there.  I looked for it in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution and it was not there.  Not until I went in 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!"