Having no Q, I suggested a route I could run in 45 minutes: Pump to Falconbridge to Raintree to Ridgefield to Cox to Brookmont to Crowncrest to Thistledown to Pump and back to the start. About 4 to 4.5 miles. The others ran ahead and doubled back to meet me on Pump.
Announcements:
Convergence tomorrow on the 250th birthday of the USA.
Prayer Requests:
Keep your family in your prayers.
COT
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”
I’ll highlight a few points: “Unalienable” means our rights do not come from either a king or a majority. They are a part of who we are, ‘God given’ and they cannot be taken away by a king or a majority. “Secure these rights” meaning first comes rights and then comes government. The government exists only to preserve our rights, not to grant us rights. “Just powers” meaning the ONLY powers the government has are JUST powers. Any other powers are not legitimate.
The Declaration of Independence summarizes the developments Natural Law (From the ancient Greeks such as Aristotle and Heraclitus to the Stoics to Thomas Aguinas to John Locke, among others) and reflects the history of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution of the 1600s.