By Marybeth Hicks
Rooted in our Judeo-Christian heritage, we American’s don’t just count our blessings by looking for the proverbial silver lining inside a passing cloud of events. We’re just as likely to “give thanks in all circumstances,” understanding that G0d can use every situation for our benefit and His glory.
Perhaps this is part of our national ethos that Theodore Roosevelt described in his classic speech, “The Strenuous Life.”
“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease,” Roosevelt said, “but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.”
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