In 1809 the attention of the whole world was on Napoleon, the small but mighty dictator of France, who swept a victorious trail through Austria. Not many people cared who was born that year, but they should have. Among the newborn list was Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Gladstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Alan Poe and Abraham Lincoln. We sometimes miss the wonderful potential of every person. But David reminded us in one of his psalms that God covered us in our mother’s womb, that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that God is acquainted with all our ways. And then finishes the psalm with a prayer, “Search me Oh God and know my heart. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” We may not be famous as those men mentioned, but only as we turn our lives over to God will we fulfill our potential.

Pastor Alex Rockwell