The following was written by Abraham Lincoln and is just as true for today as when he wrote it.  Let us remember the Word of God and place Him above all things in our personal lives, as a community, a state, and as a nation.

“Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”  (Proverbs 14:34)

“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”     (I Thessalonians 5:18)

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven.  We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.  We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown.  But we have forgotten God.  We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were reduced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to God that made us!  It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.”    ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough and more.”      ~ Beattie

Eileen Light