Friends, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but our country seems a bit nuts right now.

A pandemic, the assault on our Capitol, the near overturning of a lawful election, the possibility of real war, and an ongoing war against pretend enemies domestically.

One thing that is really encouraging to me is to study our history and see how hope has pulled us through before. Right now I’m reading Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America. In it, Meacham describes a number of seemingly unending, impossible situations for our country and how we’ve pulled through before…