Bully for Teddy Bear’s Deee-lightful Example

Letter to Romans: Brett Baier’s new book on Teddy Roosevelt (whom some contemporaries thought “insane”) speaks to “powerful lessons [on] one’s strength, duty, country.” Consider, too, Christ’s eternally sage advice to “know the tree by its fruit …”

As the Fox News anchor-turned-author summed No. 26’s White House days: “Teddy Roosevelt looked into the American heart & declared it good.” Remember the opening passage of Creation & Revelations, in which the Lord concluded in re His creation, “It was good.” As Baier added in, To Rescue the American Spirit: TR & the Birth of a Superpower: “To this day, more than a century after his passing, Roosevelt remains one of our most admired presidents.” Remember, too, the many instances in the Gospels, in which Jesus urged His followers to perform miracles in His name through FAITH in Him and how his followers have taken that faith to spread much good fruit throughout the world.

As Baier notes in his book, “The Gilded Age had created great wealth but also crushing income inequality. There was a pattern of corruption and indifference to public life …Things [under Roosevelt’s leadership in the WH] could have gone a couple of different ways.” Sound familiar when comparing then to now as well as during Jesus’ time on earth? As Teddy & Jesus similarly knew, to overcome such evil headwinds that seem to be an integral part of life, it took the light of a peoples’ strong moral code for starters, leaders willing to lead them, a system of equality in rewards as well as risks, and a calling as well as civic duty embraced by the average follower/citizen to simply do good as a part of their everyday existence. Teddy called it “The Man in the Arena.” Jesus described it as, “Rendering to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s & unto God the things that are Gods.” This Messianic “Dual Responsibility” of any Christian citizen drives us still today and we know so by the fruit that we bear … Thank very much to Teddy Bear’s Christ-like example.

Davd Soul