From Bethlehem to Philadelphia: The Hope That Formed a Nation
by KrisAnne Hall, JD
Each December, as our nation pauses for Christmas, the battles of the year seem to press a little harder on the heart. People across America have labored tirelessly to guard Liberty and restore the principles that once made this nation a light to the world. Yet Christmas is not merely a season of memory, it is a season of renewal. And the hope we seek today is the same hope that carried generations before us through trials far greater than our own.
For more than seven centuries before 1776, the soil of the Western world was being plowed for the seeds of American Liberty. Again and again, men and women rose to confront tyranny, and the record of their perseverance became the inheritance of our Founders. Patrick Henry captured this truth with unmistakable clarity:
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way to judge the future but by the past.”
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