December 4, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, December 4.
The older we get, the more we worry about our legacy, about what we’ll leave behind, about how we’ll be remembered. Chester Greenwood was born on December 4, 1858, in Farmington, Maine, and he’s remembered as the guy who invented... ear muffs.
It gets really cold in Maine. Tonight’s forecast in Farmington is for a low of ZERO! So Greenwood’s invention wasn’t a small accomplishment. Well, it was small - just two clumps of fabric and a piece of wire - and who would even guess that ear muffs was a thing that had to be “invented,” like the telephone or the internet. Greenwood actually called them “ear protectors.” He was an inventor, not an adman.
But enough jokes about Chester Greenwood - and, believe me, I’ve got a few more - but I like to keep these devotions short. His invention may seem a bit trivial, but we’re still talking about it, and him, over a century later. And this Saturday, and the first Saturday in December every year, there’s a parade in Farmington, Maine, to celebrate Chester Greenwood Day. That’s a nice legacy.
Abraham is considered one of the mighty men of the Bible, a patriarch of the Old Testament, a hero of the faith. But when you look carefully at his life, you find that it was dotted with failures, and full of regrets. In the end, this was his epitaph - “Abraham believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.”(Genesis15:6)
That’s a nice legacy.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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