As a kid, I loved the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of novels. As the story progressed, you’d make decisions for the characters that affected the outcome. In the daily adventure of life, we have an even more important choice: choosing our attitude toward the events around us.
If liberty is to die here, that death will have been preceded by whimpers of ecclesiastical acquiescence.
Our obligation isn’t to be victorious but to be faithful. The fight matters.
The insiders don’t like when the peasants and the peons speak up.
Campaigns haven’t gotten nastier; our memory has gotten worse.
