We live in a time where people seem to be against everything. Whether its Holidays, raising money for a charitable cause,or honoring a you name it, someone is against it and they will let you know about it. Popular culture calls them "haters." To me, its like a constant bleeting of lambs.
This movement seems to be so pervasive that there seem to be very few people who are actually "for" something. The few that are, many whom are children, seem to be crushed by the overwhelming negativity of the folks who are so loudly against everything.
My challenge to you is to
be passionately "for" something and to be so "passionately" for it than everyone who is against it is drowned out by your passion. Make a commitment to make something good happen and no matter what opposition you might face, make it happen. We need more people who make good things happen!
It's better to be a Lion for one day than a Lamb your entire life.
Most people recognize the Statue pictured above, but few know the man who forged it. The Statue of Freedom sits atop the United States Capitol Building as a symbol of the struggles that made The United States of America the greatest country on earth.
What most people don't know is that this statue is possible due to the work of a South Carolina slave named Phillip Reid.
When the plaster model for the statue arrived from Rome, it came in five pieces and was assembled for passers by to admire. When the bronze statue was to be forged from the plaster model, the workers who put the five pieces together were nowhere to be found. Phillip Reid figured out how to take the statue apart and then worked 7 days a week for 33 consecutive weeks to forge the actual statue in bronze.
When the statue was hoisted atop the Capitol Dome in December of 1862, Phillip Reid witnessed it as a free man, thanks in part to an act of Congress earlier that year that freed the District of Columbia's 3100 slaves.
Freedom forged by a slave.
