After the signing of the constitution in 1787, Benjamin Franklin commented about the chair in which George Washington had sat through all the weeks and months of their preparations. At the top of the chair were the golden rays of the sun. He told Washington that throughout all the proceedings he had wondered if it was a rising or setting sun.
Then Washington asked him, “What have you decided, Mr. Franklin?” He did not hesitate with his response. He said, “It is a rising sun.”
At the beginning of this New Year, we face a rising sun, not a setting one. Be an optimist. Though times are hard, you can still believe the best is yet to be. Hang on to hope. The scriptures say, “Hope thou in God.” Let’s put our hope in the Lord and not in...