June 4, 2014
My instead: I visited a
random monument in Edwardsville just to see what it was all about.
Time on my hands. How
did that happen? After dropping my son and his wife off at the St. Louis
Airport, I moseyed on into Edwardsville almost an hour before I was to meet
friends at the Cleveland-Heath Restaurant.
I had only been to the
restaurant once and Edwardsville was NOT like the back of my hand. What the
heck…I had plenty of time to get lost and found before my dinner date. I was
driving along Highway 157 towards town when I noticed a monument in front of a
cemetery. My “instead” for the day was still due and this marker was an
unexplained target of my growing curiosity. I parked my car at a bank and
walked across the street to discover Edward Coles. He was the second governor
of Illinois and was steadfast in preventing slavery in Illinois and its
constitution. This was about 40 years before Lincoln was president! I thought “This
guy would have gotten my vote!”
As I stood there and
read the writing on the wall, I thought about what it would take to have a
monument built in your honor. Nothing. There is nothing that you or I could do
to pursue or promote this. It only happens if someone ELSE out there thinks you
deserve it and then THEY pursue and promote it! The good news is that we all
deserve a monument. We’re just not hooked up with that special person that
would make it happen! Silly, right?
Seriously though, we all
come into this world as a monument. It is our choices that will destroy it or maintain
its stronghold.
Choices…
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