This day (August 4) in history, Anne Frank and her family were captured by Gestapo (1944), Lizzie Borden "took an axe" (1892), slain civil rights workers were found in Mississippi (1964), General Custer and the seventh calvary were attacked by Indians (1873), and I am sure the list could go on and on.
The significance of these events probably don't mean much to some of us, but to those who were there, they meant history.
I found a very motivating quote today, that in some ways contradicted the list of historical events listed above. "History will be kind to me for I intend to make it" (Winston Churchill). Some of these names and events will be recalled in our history books or on tv specials occassionally, but was history "kind" to them?
"Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father 40 wacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her mother 41." Yes, Lizzie Borden made history to the extent that a little jingle was written about her. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" (Anne Frank). Anne's innocence, spirit, and deplorable death that we read about in high school will be impressed in our minds.
Though one was the victim and the other the culprit, both made history.
What kind of history am I going to make? Hopefully not one that involves using an axe. Probably not one that will be read in any ones textbook. Prayerfully, one that leaves an inheritance and legacy to my children and maybe their children.
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