Standing in the gap… 1 Timothy 2:1-2, ‘I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”
Readers of this column often find important lessons on courage, integrity, and generosity among the stories of the famous lives presented. History offers important lessons after the fact. Most significantly, it shows why it is vital to take action at that moment instead of waiting for a better time that may never come. Today, you need to be the lesson and take action now.
The state’s Public Utility Commission last week lowered the maximum allowable wholesale price for electricity by almost half, from $9,000 per megawatt hour to $5,000.
I had the pleasure of meeting Bob Dole in Kansas while working for the now defunct Hoxie Sentinel, in Hoxie, Kansas about seven years ago. The idea of meeting a former US Senator, and a man who ran for president several times was pretty special. However, for me the occasion was somewhat personal and a little humorous.
It came to be called the Day Which Will Live in Infamy. The attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a devastating loss for the nation. When the attack began at 7:55 AM by Japanese forces, the Americans on the scene realized that their lives in that moment had changed. The American entry into World War II would transform the face of the war and forever alter the course of the nation and of the men and women who fought to protect it.
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