Field Trip: George W. Bush Presidential Museum

For our first field trip of the spring semester,

our little homeschool class took a trip

 to the George W. Bush Presidential Museum recently 

on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

This place never disappoints.

I have been here at least two other times, and there

are different things to experience every time you visit.

I am always filled with awe at the multiple catastrophe's this President

had thrust upon him during his two terms in office, and the grace and dignity

 with which he led our country through them.

Did he do that perfectly?
Of course not.

He's a mortal human being.
He did do the best he knew how with the resources available

to him at the time and with the wisdom of the counsellors

he had surrounded himself with.

I am always reminded that President Bush was a principled man.
He developed these principals through his private devotion to God,

an understanding that his was a position ordained by God,
and the subsequent sober responsibility that comes with that position.

Last summer, I had the distinct privilege of walking through the collection

of the portraits he has painted of the wounded soldiers who have gone to

battle under his leadership.
Seriously??
Come on!!!
Incredible!
He learned to paint so he could capture the scars and stories

of these brave men and women who went to battle for him 

and for their country.

And he did all this AFTER he left office.

Maybe as a way to process all that he made decisions about,

maybe as a way to honor these men and women,
maybe as a way to find value in all of the brokenness.

If you ever come to Dallas, you won't regret stopping in.