17th week after Pentecost

 In God I trust… (Psalm 56:11)

I’ve been told I got it all wrong; that, our national motto is “In God we trust.” Maybe so, but I was thinking of our founders who would never go for a motto that wasn’t in Latin. A non-Latin motto is obviously a new comer.

The Constitution, our founding document which the Supreme Court guards and interprets, does not mention God. It’s a product of “We the People…” As human products go, it’s a wonder. Its purpose was and is “to form a more perfect Union…” There is, in this eloquent language of the preamble, an understanding of something or someone Transcendent—a Perfection beyond our reach. Fortunately for us it does not say, “To form the Perfect Union.” That’s the language of tyranny.