A Glorious Day Long Forgotten

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I'll bet this was the first time today you heard about today's holiday. For any native Texan, today should be a special day, but it is one that the media and even the state seems to have forgotten existed. After all, we have party primaries today! Woo hoo!

Today is Texas Independence Day. As Senator John Cornyn (inappropriately with an American flag in the background) described, on March 2nd, 1836, a group of Texian leaders gathered in a small wood frame building at Washington-on-the-Brazos in south Texas to sign a declaration of independence from Mexico. The flag that flew over the Alamo, at San Jacinto, and for nine years afterward over Austin, was not the U.S. flag. It was the Lone Star flag that still represents the people of Texas today.

I was born in Texas, by the grace of God, to immigrants from Louisiana (ask them. they'll admit to being immigrants who got here as fast as they could.). And as far as I'm concerned, I consider myself to be a Texan first and everything else second. This is not ego as much as it is civic pride. Or patriotism. We are a unique people here in Texas and I'm glad to be counted among them.

I enjoy living in this wild and beautiful land called Texas and days like today remind me that the history people have have forgotten forged the foundation of the place they now reside. If you want a spiritual analogy, think of the Hebrews coming out of Egypt. They forgot about what God had done for them in the past and ended up wandering for 40 years in the wilderness. When Joshua led them across the Jordan, the next generation gathered as a people in the Promised Land to celebrate their own independence day and recall the blessings of God in the past.

So there. Happy Independence Day, y'all! I hope you celebrate with some Blue Bell and a cold Dr. Pepper.

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