A James Monroe postcard

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” I Timothy 4:12 KJV
So how does that little bundle of nothing grow up into a living, productive being? This future President would be so inspired by him that he would go buy a rifle and join the college patriots. When the young, strong, handsome prince crossed one of his daughter’s path, he probably thought he struck gold.

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The Tennessee Presidents Cover

“And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.” Mark 11:22 KJV
Life is a journey of many steps and it would be kind of boring if each step was the same as the next or if you didn’t verve off for an adventure every once in a while. The young lad for Columbia was one of those lucky lads. If there were rankings of prophets at that time, you might say, his ranking was slipping and slipping badly.

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My Hand

“For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.” Genesis 44:34 KJV
After all the ceremonies, his body guard took him to Union Station in Washington DC where he would board a train to head home. The ex-President was now, literally, just an average American. If I stayed there any longer, I knew I would feel the pain of their hand slipping out of mine. “Take me! Take me! I just can’t bear my father’s pain over the loss of another son. It will kill him and it will be my fault because I didn’t take extra good care of his youngest son,” he would beg.

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