Truth Inspires

You can't beat the weather: Spring is too rainy and summer's too hot; Fall is soon over and winter is not.* An astute observer would note the poetic verse above had to be written in the season of winter and probably on a bad hair day! All too well we know the feeling and we chuckle along with the author. But, nevertheless, the seasonal cycle does continue; winter does fade and soon gives birth to the spring of new life. And new life is what I want to speak of for a moment.  Often, I find myself looking through history books and reading old news articles, all the while thinking, the writer, the characters and all involved have long passed on to eternity. I wonder what they thought of the future ahead--the days they would never see? You see, life does go on. No matter how inconspicuous and shifting it may be to us, it has its own life, its own people, its own places, and its own news. For most, a glimpse of our future will never be known. But there was such a one who d...