“Before honor comes humility” (Proverbs 15:33). When I announced my run for president, I promised to “work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.”
Prayer Time With Perry
And I can do it. Just look at my record. For more than a decade I worked to make the governor’s office inconsequential to Texans. Most of my fellow Texans had never heard of me before this summer. It was all “George Bush this” and “George Bush that.” Washington needs to be humble, like me. I will do so little, generate so much inertia and numbing indifference, leave so little trace of my influence, that after my first term the whole country will wake refreshed, as if after a satisfying nap. But I WILL probably carve my initials somewhere in the Oval Office. For posterity’s sake.
See all the old archived, classic Rick Perry Devotionals here!