This is the season of resolutions for the coming year, and the
practice must speak to something deep within us because its roots are
ancient.
The Babylonians are
said to have been
the first to make New Year’s resolutions, some 4,000 years ago. In 46
B.C. Julius Caesar established January 1 as the beginning of the new year.
The month is named for Janus, the two-faced god who symbolically looked
backwards into the previous year and ahead into the future.
Today resolutions are typically about health and personal improvement. Let
me propose, however, that we resolve to stand strong against the ill winds
blowing across our land.
Let us
resolve to stand
with parents investigated for their involvement with their school
boards.
Let us
resolve to stand
with those being censored by the federal government.
Let us
resolve to stand
with those whose lives are shattered by leftist policies on crime.
Let us
resolve to stand expose
and stop the attacks on our elections and freedoms by weaponized
government.
We have withstood the worst before.
As the New Year of 1942
began, Hitler held
Europe, Nazi U-boats prowled the Atlantic, and America had received a heavy
blow at Pearl Harbor.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was in the United States and
spoke to our
Congress about our common enemies:
Later, on a train in New York traveling near President Franklin
Roosevelt's home at Hyde Park, he called staff and reporters to the dining
car. He wanted to “cast some forward light upon the dark, inscrutable
mysteries of the future.” He toasted them:
