Sarah Palin & the "servant's heart"

Was exchanging emails with Deacon Greg, who is not especially interested in politics. He wrote of Palin’s speech:

I’m watching the replay on my computer on msnbc…I love that she used that “ship in a harbor” analogy … and that she said politician’s should have a “servant’s heart.” Right after I was ordained and starting my blog, a deacon wrote to me and said “Every day say this prayer, ‘Lord, give me a servant’s heart.'”

I had noticed, and appreciated, that line, too – it resonated for me in a different way; I remember being young and watching “Give ’em Hell, Harry,” the one-man show about Harry S Truman, and really being struck by his notion of a president or any office-holder as a “servant” of the public. Most of our politicians seem to have forgotten that, these days, and recently, watching Pelosi and company tell Americans that their opinions on drilling were irrelevant, I’ve been writing that too many are uninterested in actually serving us. So, yes, I was thrilled to hear Palin say it.

But Greg, predictably, helps us to see the profundity of the role of servant, by looking at the Palin’s youngest child, wonderfully named Trig Paxson Van Palin, whose very life is suggestive that Palin (and her husband) truly has a “servant’s heart.”