Respect shared for 41st President
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Editor,
I participated by TV in the memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral this past week. As I watched, listened and responded with a few tears of my own, I prayed the Lord would touch the heart of every person attending and everyone across this great country who was watching with a renewed sense of need for them to be more like the person we were hearing about in the eulogies presented.
I actually thought it would or will be appropriate if several of our national leaders, past or present, publicly declared and demonstrated that fulfilling a more noble lifestyle will be their endeavor in the years ahead; although I do not have many years left, I certainly want to do that.
I’m often amazed at the influence parents have in encouraging their children to love God and their neighbors. I believe they do this best by modeling and practicing what they teach. The best teaching tool that parents have to lead their family is to show and tell. It seemed quite evident that there is high regard on the part of the Bush children and grandchildren for their parents and grandparents. If we sincerely desire to help our kids turn right and go straight, we need to show them how it is done. Remember, the apple never falls far from the tree.
If you watched the memorial, you were able to see some of the beauty of America’s Cathedral. A quote, said years ago, from the 41st President regarding the beauty of the stained-glass windows in the cathedral was offered in one of the eulogies. The president had said, “Without faith, we are stained-glass windows in the dark.”
The memorial to President George Herbert Walker Bush this past week declared that as a people we should all live a more noble life by loving God more passionately, our neighbors as favorably as ourselves and our family members with daily expressions, using words if necessary.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
