FROM THE WILDERNESS TO WASHINGTON

SOME THOUGHTS FROM MY 9TH BOOK “The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln)
(These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
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“When Abe swore on the Bible to uphold the Constitution, the faith he brought with him helped him to honestly support the five reference to God found in the Declaration of Independence; supreme Lawmaker, Creator, Source of certain unalienable rights, world’s supreme Judge and Protector on whom we can rely. It is not that an atheist or agnostic could not pay lip service to these; it is just that an obvious lack of enthusiasm would make its mark.”

“Incredibly, few had envisioned all the maimed and wounded on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Bullets would now proliferate because ballots had failed, until finally one day, like all wars, it would come to a final bitter end."

In Washington there was nothing Lincoln could do when things in the field got out of hand. He was their Commander-in-Chief, but he could not be everywhere. He could speak with an unrelenting concern, but his words could not control every soldier dressed in blue. He watched and prayed that the weariness of war, if not wisdom, would make it all soon come to an end. And when that finally happened, that good men in both North and South would outnumber the bad.”

“Lincoln believed that “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” And, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.”

This child of the wilderness had had no city lights to mute the stars or compete with moonlight. He had watched his own growing, side by side with all the other growing things in field and forest. It seemed natural to him to ponder that human life must be more of mind, and soul a reality.”

"Though six-foot four and weighing one hundred eighty-four pounds, Abraham Lincoln was never too big for his long legged britches. He was not overly impressed with himself, but always impressed by the works of the Almighty.
In his growing up he knew little of the thin two hundred square mile strip of civilization hugging the eastern coast. He would, of course, live and die there one day, this man who would travel so far from the wilderness to Washington. Would travel, but never alone, for his was a soul attuned to heaven.

Much has been made of the fact that Lincoln’s death took place on Good Friday, and that while Christ died for the world, Lincoln died for his country. Certainly he was no saint, but he was a good and kindly man who brought his Christian heart to Washington along with his head.”

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