Wisdom, tonight we give thanks for heroes, imperfect, fallible people who mustered their courage and met the needs of their times. We give thanks for Abraham Lincoln, who fought his own battles with depression and despair, who had to seek and strive for his own better angel of his nature as well as that of a nation's. We give thanks for the many hundreds of thousands who are unsung and yet who also fought for freedom, for unity, and who sought equality out of a nation that had forbidden it while claiming equality self-evidently so. Wisdom, tonight we give thanks for heroes, known and unknown, imperfect and fallible, who mustered their courage and met the needs of their times. We give thanks for George Washington, who fought for freedom and still held others in bondage, and yet in battle welcomed all who would wrest freedom from and unfree time and equality from a time of tremendous inequality. We give thanks for the many thousands who are unsung and who yet sought freedom and equality, a dream that inspires us still. Wisdom, tonight we give thanks for heroes, known and unknown, imperfect and fallible, who mustered their courage and met the needs of their times. May we do likewise, with all our failings and our imperfections, finding our courage, holding tightly to one another, and seeking a better world with dignity for all. Amen.
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