God and Ronald Reagan
A Spiritual Life
Excerpt
Chapter OneJack and Nelle
"You can be too big for God to use, but you cannot be too small."
-an annotation in Nelle Reagan's Bible
January 20, 1924, was a blustery cold, wind-swept Sunday across
the plains of Illinois. According to the Dixon Evening Telegraph,
tiny Alton, Illinois, had been hit the night before with "the heaviest
and most spectacular "snowstorm of the winter. Rail, streetcar, and
automobile traffic was plunging valiantly through the storm, but by
ten o'clock all were losing the fight. The weather was so cold near
Chicago, where the temperature dipped to eighteen degrees below
zero, that many of the entries in the International Tournament of the
Norge Ski Club failed to jump. And if that weren't enough, the Associated Press was reporting that "a new cold wave "was on its way from Alaska, threatening to exceed already-record lows.
Suffering through the freeze, in the northwest corner of the state,
was idyllic little Dixon, home to Jack and Nelle Reagan and their two sons. Dixon sits some one hundred mi ... read full excerpt from: God and Ronald Reagan ebook
