If I were to, write a song that lit the fires within your heart, spoke a speech worthy of encouraging you to give all to fight or tell a tale that captured your every investment, this would be that day. But I am not a man of crafty ideas, songs that tap feet or clap hands and certainly am devoid of necessary talent to alight the fires of man’s will to overcome. No, none of these things may I bring to bear. Instead I will speak of promises and desires that lay in reason beyond the realms of Earth’s living souls.

If I were to have the set of wide shoulders capable to bearing aloft man’s burden, or legs to carry them to the soft ground beyond rocky shores or the skills of shepherd to protect the flock from dangerous jaws then that day would worthy of remembering. But I am a simple man believing upon the miracles of God born in my prayers for mercy and grace and His Loving promise to provide, protect and use me for some grand purpose beyond my inadequate skills or lack of imagination and thinking.

If I were to be the hero who stood profiled upon the high fields of battle, striking courage as lightning in the hearts of the downtrodden in simple sitting tall upon beast of battle or a trumpeter blasting forth the shrill sound of power and hope as enemy line’s approach then no one would fall pray the spirit of fear to which we succumb before battle’s beginning. But I have no such silhouette to capture folk tale nor the voice of angel to remind people of things worse than the fight that God has brought us.

If I were the oracle sitting alone taking solace in the guaranteed visits of kings and pauper to hear my answers given or the wealthy man having conquered every business or realm in clever manipulation of money, men and assets then I would produce revenue fitting to move men’s hearts and situation to solid ground where they may flourish and remember. But I am no mount of wisdom to which men flock for reason or deep understanding and my only hope is found in the Divine Word or understanding that God’s Holy Spirit has promised to give me at the precise moment of my sanctification before man.