Duty is in Our Blood
(Another great read by Father Dabney at Identity Dixie - DD)
Vacations are a fantastic time for my family; we don’t take many of them, but when we do, we go big! A budget on these excursions is more like the pirate code: just a guideline. What’s the point of going if you’re only worrying about every Jefferson or Washington spent? And speaking of those noble Virginians, our trip transported us into the past, the past in which both of these humble farmers became mythological.
I’ve written a great deal for Identity Dixie about the need for mythical figures to arise within our ranks, and I am positive God is raising those men up, just as he did with these two farmers. Of course, they were much more than farmers. Between the two, cumulatively, they were statesmen, authors, philosophers, inventors, warriors, architects, astronomers, and scientists. Both were good fathers to their children, biological or otherwise, and by all accounts loved their wives with great devotion.
But that which transforms ordinary men into mythical figures are deeds. For you see, brothers and sisters, what men do, especially in unsettled times, defines greatness. Both Washington and Jefferson rose to the occasion when their people needed them, and both surrendered power when those specific needs subsided. Washington reluctantly rose from farmer to…