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On p. 104 of GR, Sarah continues her account of her time of waiting and praying for light during the period that followed her resignation as chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. She writes (she is quoting graduation speeches that she used to give to kids as Mayor of Wasilla):

" '… So stop and think about what you love to do, then look for signposts along the way that confirm you're on the right path to doing that---doors opening, people with your best interests at heart supporting what you're doing.'

"I wasn't sure what I was to do next, yet. But I also knew I was blessed with a supportive family and a husband who took joy in my working hard, so I knew I had options. As I rocked my daughter [Piper] all those dark nights, I knew that what still stirred passion in me was the desire to make a positive difference for others, not just in my family and community but in the wider world as well. I resolved to seek confirming signs along the way---the open doors---to show me the right road."

And so concludes Chapter Two.

As we have observed in the course of the Governor's wonderful book, great truths are often hidden and concealed in the seemingly simplest of words.

I would like to focus this morning on these words: "As I rocked my daughter all those dark nights."

As a preliminary observation, we may note the force of her words "all those dark nights." The "all" implies how long and difficult this period was for her. The word "dark" is fraught with multiple meanings too, I believe. On the surface, of course, the nocturnal periods were inky and black. I think, however, that there is a connotation too that the period was one replete with doubt and ambiguity and uncertainty for her.

Next, I think we must consider the marvelous power of MOTION. Sarah "rocked" her little daughter. The rhythm of this movement undoubtedly produced a feeling of peace and tranquility for Piper, and for Sarah herself.

Now BEHOLD THE DIVINE IRONY AND BLESSING AND MERCY!!!

While she was WAITING to discern in what direction, down what path, she should MOVE next, while she was sitting suspended in the suffering and IMMOBILITTY of doubt and uncertainty, she was providing the blessing and balm and consolation of MOTION to her tiny daughter!

I think that the mysterious Hand of Heaven often works in this way.

George Washington and his heroic Continental Army were FREEZING to death at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-1778, and yet they were giving interior WARMTH and light and inspiration to the Colonies--no, the STATES!! We too, even today, feel the effects of that heroism: These effects reverberate and echo down the corridor of the decades and centuries even unto this present moment!!

Who was more helpless, in a physical sense, in America than little Trig Paxson Van Palin from the day of his birth in April, 2008? And yet this precious child has been one of the most powerful forces for good in our time because, in lieu of murdering him, the Governor brought him into this tired old world, and cherishes him, and loves him.

The Supreme Example is the Son of God. He was IMMOBILIZED in torment on the Cross on Good Friday, and yet SHOOK and MOVED the fate of humanity in a way that no one else has!!

(Devotees of St. Thomas Aquinas, et al. will perhaps think too of the expression "The Unmoved Mover" re the Lord!!)

So in the same way our Sarah, as she suffered through "all those dark nights," immobilized in doubt and uncertainty about her future, was providing MOTION IN HER IMMOBILITY!!

The immediate and proximate and PHYSICAL rocking motion, the soothing movement that she gave to little Piper, was almost the Divine Sign and Presaging of the great MOVEMENT that was to come, as she has shaken up first Alaska, in her Governorship, and then all of America with the heroic war that she is waging against BOTH obama and his fellow Communists AND the corrupt GOP Establishment.

And so as WE sit IMMOBILZED since 5 October of last year, as we sit frustrated in our ardent desire to make Sarah President of the United States, our very IMMOBILITY and PATIENCE and SUFFERING and WAITING, is, IMHO, moving many hearts on a deep level, and is preparing the soil spiritually for the Restoration of America. This phenomenon is all the more powerful the more hidden and secret it is right now.

Thus, while WE await the Lord's "signposts" to which the Governor refers above, let US provide a salutary and soothing "rocking" through charitable actions to those who are closest to us.

We shall in this way clear the road and path for a far greater and wider MOVING and SHAKING in the near future--a shaking and a moving that shall rock "business as usual," that shall rock the Permanent Political Class to its foul and filthy and fetid foundations, and lead to the RESTORATION OF AMERICA.

This will be the REAL "MOVE ON"!!!!!

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