Rest

Remember as you go to bed, it is better to sleep with love than hate. Let go of pain and recrimination for the night and rest. remember at least one thing you love as you drift off.

Rest has never come of anger, but peace has always come of love.

Final Message

I just presided over My Final Stated meeting as the current Master of Arlington Masonic Lodge 438 I would not have made it through this year without My Officers. What follows is the final news letter report I sent in. It leaves out one very important person. My Wife Monica Riney. With out her constant support over multiple years and putting up with my self doubt and spurring me forward My Officers would never had had the chance to help me. Of all people on earth I owe her thanks first and foremost.

This year as Master has been for me a lesson in humility. It has been a lesson in asking for help. For the success of this last masonic year I owe this thanks to the Men who stood beside me.

Brethren,

One year ago I wrote to tell you how excited I was to be trusted with the office of Worshipful Master of our Lodge. In that year I have learned how honored I really should be to sit in the East in Arlington. It is a rare state that any lodge might find itself in that both the Master and the Secretary are both at times medically out of action. Many of our other officers have also faced life events in this past year and yet as a whole this lodge has risen and proclaimed that we are Brothers first. Our agendas have been attended to. Our day to day functions have not failed. We have had what I believe to be a good Masonic year.

Many of my plans went astray and had to be left to the wind due to being physically infirm. Details I had put down on paper for many many years went by the wayside. When this happened I found I had, not only the richness of the blessings of God to carry me through, I had a corps of officers who simply made things happen. I am still not sure how they did it. The Officers of this Lodge, along with our committees and all those who stepped in and often times said "Sit down Worshipful, we got this." are the ones who made things happen in the lodge for the last 12 months.

I am privileged to take the credit for the work they did my year, as undeserved as it is. I am proud to take responsibility for any thing that went awry.

I am more excited today to be a member of this lodge than I was a year ago. I am more honored to have been chosen as Master than I ever would have dreamed.

Thank you all
Don Riney
WM Arlington 438

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Anadiplosis: Card 2 of my Rhetoric flash cards.

Every Mason has taken an Obligation
The Obligation we take makes us all Brothers
As Brothers, we will all learn our Obligation

anaphora

Anaphora (Card 3 of my Rhetoric flashcards)

The Lodge is met in Peace
The Lodge is maintained in Harmony
The Lodge meets upon the Level
The Lodge acts upon the Plumb
The Lodge parts upon the Square.

declaration

On June 7th 1776, the "Lee Resolution" that was proposed by Richard Henry Lee and read as follows "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." Discussion was deferred until July 1st.

On June 11th A committee of Five were appointed to draft a declaration document

ON July 1st Discussion on the Lee Resolution was joined.

On July 2nd 1776 the continental congress voted in parliamentary unanimity (New York Abstained) to declare our independence from the British empire.

On July 4th the final Draft of the Declaration of Independence was approved.

By August 2nd, 56 men of wealth and position declared themselves as insurrectionist and treason against the Crown. Printed broadsides were posted throughout the States.

Most of us have read the first few lines of this document that defined our desire for freedom. How many have rad the whole thing?

Love

been long week remember be in love with something or some one tonight. Love keeps us human.