In Benjamin Franklin’s “Project for Moral Perfection”, character trait number 11 was “Tranquility.” He defined it as “Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.”

Ben didn’t let things bother him. He rarely even became disturbed when major problems were imminent. He knew that things would generally work out for the best.

He wrote to his friend Samuel Rhodes, about his defeat for re-election to the Assembly, on July 8, 1765: “The malice of our adversaries I am well acquainted with. But hitherto it has been harmless, all their arrows shot against us have been like those that Rabelais speaks of which were headed with butter hardened in the sun. As long as I have known the world I have observed that wrong is growing more wrong, till there is no bearing, and that right opposed, comes out right at last.”

This seems to be the model our current U.S. President is acting under. It will all come out right at last. But sometimes I think it may not come out right until the next life! Yes, in Heaven.