Abigail Adams, Every new mercy is a debt to be repaid

By Tina Didreckson
Published April 17, 2013 at 8:57am

If you have a due sense of your preservation, your next consideration will be, for what purpose you are continued in life.

It is not to rove from clime to clime, to gratify an idle curiosity; but every new mercy you receive is a new debt upon you, a new obligation to a diligent discharge of the various relations in which you stand connected; in the first place, to your great Preserver; in the next, to society in general; in particular, to your country, to your parents, and to yourself.

Abigail Adams, Letter to John Quincy Adams, 03-20-1780

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Tina Didreckson, first read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Federalist Papers and Bill of Rights in 1980 before she voted in her first primary. Didreckson is employed as Historian, Researcher and IT person for a local history museum. She is also the coordinator of Horizontal Grandeur, a national fine art exhibition which celebrates life on the the prairies of North America. Having been around PCs since 1981, she is a go-to person for computer questions, an avid Photoshop user, Social Media maven, and webmaster/board member for several non-profits including her granddaughter's 501(c)3 corporation, the Erin Tanner Liver Foundation. Fiercely independent, Didreckson is also a sculptor, potter, mixed media artist and owner of Prairie Fire Studios.