Patriotic Grace

Peggy Noonan has this to say in her recent book: Patrtiotic Grace: What it is and Why We Need It Now

"So: we have much to do. And it all starts with a greater civility, a greater respect, both a higher--and deeper tone to our polictical conversation.
I should end by noting the obivious. We'll get through it, whatever happens. We are America. There's a lot of ruin in a nation, as Adam Smith said. Great countries can take a lot of punshment, recover from a lot of loss. There's a vast amount of ruin in us. We are a great nation populated by a gifted and still-gritty people. We have deep spiritual resources, great natural resources, a sturdy system of laws, enduring traditions of grenerosity and support, and military and technological prowess and might.

But we can make things better now. We can be moving to make our country stronger now. We can focus now, so that we can more readily endure into the next good time.

For that too is coming.
We just have to get there."


Good thoughts. I recommend this book