Abraham Lincoln

Austin has been reading The Boys Life of Abraham Lincoln a book I asked him to read because I had gotten for Maestin. Austin thoroughly enjoyed it and there was one particular passage he read to me that I loved and thought it exemplified the kind of leaders we need in our country to keep it going. We are all working on those leaders in our homes. I want to share a quote by this man of God.

"We are indeed going through a great trial, a fiery trial. In the very responsible position in which I happen to be placed, being a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father as I am, and as we all are, to work out His great purposes, I have desired that all my works and acts may be according to His will, and that it might be so I have sought His aid; but if, after endeavoring to do my best in the light which he affords me, I find my efforts fail, I must believe that for some purpose unknown to me, He wills it other wise. If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way, this war would have been ended before this, but we find it still continues, and we must believe that He permits it for some wise purpose of His own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with our limited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it."

I find it remarkable that the leaders of our nation that held it together in the beginning were Men of God and that the answer to our problems now is in a lack of God fearing people. If we can just exemplify what those before us have done we will be going in the right direction. Just some random thoughts of a mom always looking for inspiration for myself and my family.