Straight From The Hart By Joan Rowden Hart We celebrated Columbus Day this week. Or did we? I guess the more appropriate term would be that most of us “observed” it by having a typical Monday, the only difference being that our mail wasn’t delivered and the banks were closed. But Columbus Day should be one of the most important days in our national life. It is the story of a man consumed with a passion for his God and a heart for missions to bring the light of salvation to those who had never heard it. Wait – that’s not what you remember from school? Well, hold on, there’s more. I’m quoting now from an obscure journal written by Christopher Columbus. “It was the Lord who put it into my mind the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. There is no question but that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.” “For the execution of the journey to the Indies, I did not make use