HAVE WE FORGOTTEN GOD !

A friend of mine has a blog and she is the one that got me started doing one. We have known each other for years beginning in the 80s in Charlotte,NC at church. She is a native of Charlotte.
Anyway, I decided today to read her past blogs going back all last year and its been quite fun to catch up on what is going on in her life. There is a quote she posted last November that was taken from a speech Abraham Lincoln gave in 1863 and I felt it was "really relevant" today..not quite a year later. Here it is:

"We have been the receipents of the choicest bounties of heaven,
We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has 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 produced by some superior wisdom wisdom and virtue of our own."


ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1863
an excerpt from his "Thanksgiving Proclamation"