[loveliberty2]

When going through one of my late father's Bibles, I came across these inspiring words. They had been clipped from what appeared to be a Masonic publication. The clipping was yellowed with age, but my father had drawn a box around the words, "I do not choose to be a common man."

He had underlined the words, "I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed." Within that sentence, he had double-underlined the word "fail" and boxed the word "succeed."

My father was born in 1907 to an alcoholic father and had to drop out of school at 14 to support his siblings and mother. He was a remarkable man who never achieved wealth, but he was an inspiration to youth through his positive attitude, his work in his church and community and the example he set by the dedicated life he lived.

Dean Alfange's "My Creed" must have struck a chord in his heart, and his keeping the words in the Bible he read from daily may, perhaps, now speak to many today, although my father has been dead for over 20 years. That is my hope.

[Celtic Cross]

“Through snow and sleet and darkness and hail,
We always will,
deliver mail”

-The Mailman’s creed

[HushTX]

I love this.

Thank you for sharing. And thank you for sharing about your father.