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Oct. 16, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: Does it trouble you too how divided we seem to be, especially during election years? This may be even more of a challenge than who we will choose to defend and represent us as our next president. We hear that we have more in common than divides us. So, rather than making an argument for who should unite us, perhaps it might be useful to think about what can unite us. Here are some suggestions: The indescribable diversity and majesty of life and natural beauty that surrounds us.
To witness the precious and tender interaction between little children and their parents and the security and clarity of purpose it brings to lives.
Appreciation for the generous, even heroic, acts of service by so many all around us.
That we live in a country whose founding documents, now after a tragic and bloody civil war, finally guarantee each of us, regardless of our skin color, gender or national origin, the right to think, speak, and worship as we choose.
To recognize that our land, with its abundant resources and opportunities, was created and preserved by divine intervention for a generation desperate for the freedoms we should now equally cherish, who were willing to try an experiment in self-government that enshrines them.
To contemplate the sacrifice of so many who fought, bled, and died to preserve that experiment and the liberties we enjoy but too many still don’t.
The realization which brings us to our knees in gratitude and humility, of a loving Heavenly Father, who, with His Son Jesus, despite our sins, made it possible for us all to live in perpetual peace in a place more beautiful than this, if we will simply listen to them and love them and each other with all our hearts, like they do, no matter what signs we have in our yard. JOHN N. TUCKER Kerrs Creek
