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"A hint of weariness..."
On p. 123 of GR, Sarah continues with her description of the night of her inauguration as Governor of Alaska. She writes, "Piper sat happily for most of the ceremony, her bright red dress unruffled and her new black patent leather shoes swinging. Her sisters had placed a tiny toy tiara on her head and told her to be patient.
"She hung in there with just a hint of weariness, though she never got bored with her dress. She wore it to all the inaugural events and never tired of dancing in it."
Like Piper, WE too must be patient in this present hour, a figurative "hour" whose actual length and extension we cannot now know.
Like Piper, WE too sometimes feel touched with "just a hint of weariness."
I know that I, in company with so many of you, wanted the Governor to run for President for 2012. In fact, I presented a piece at the end of last year on what the concept of "SARAH 2012" meant to me and, I think, to so many Americans. However, I do believe that she is guided and directed by the Hand and Might and Wisdom of the Good Lord.
Indeed, I think that a Celestial Game of Chess is now being played out on a board the broad and extensive spaces of which occupy, not the limited confines of sixty-four squares, but the entire breadth and length and majesty of the fifty States of the Res Publica Americana.
Further, because the fate and fortunes of the entire world are intimately bound up with and tied to those of America, we may fairly say that this "chessboard" encompasses and embraces the entire globe.
Now, as anyone knows who has played a little chess, it is often the pawns and knights and bishops that are the first forces to be marshaled and deployed; the rooks and the QUEEN are often (though not invariably) held in reserve.
I would like to think of our Sarah, even in a Republic, as the Queen on the chessboard of this great contest. Like the multifaceted and powerful queen in chess, the Governor, with her brilliant and multiple talents and abilities in so many areas--stateswoman, orator, political analyst, political warrior, humorist, writer, woman of the People, huntress of the enemies of America, etc.--like the chess queen, our brilliant Sarah possesses broad powers on many depths and levels.
It seems that the Lord is holding the QUEEN in reserve for the right and destined and critical hour and moment.
We often grow impatient and weary and discouraged, and perhaps never more so than on THAT day, 5 October, 2011, and in the days and weeks that followed it.
In fact, the Governor's act on that autumn day in 2011 may have constituted a Great Gambit.
A gambit in chess, of course, is the sacrifice of a piece in the present moment for a great gain, yes for triumph, at the end of the match.
With the clarity and integrity of vision that can often only be supplied and furnished by retrospect, we may someday see that day in October, 2011, not as the END of a dream, but as the BEGINNING of one!!
Patience is asked of us as we await, in hope and in prayer, the Governor's eventual inauguration as President of the United States of America.
IN PATIENTIA VESTRA POSSIDEBITIS ANIMAS VESTRAS (Luke 21: 19)--In your patience you shall possess your souls.
