Many reflect on this past week as a week of being grateful, making great Black Friday purchases, and spending time with the ones we love (not to mention football...). What an incredible week that our country has to solidify our gratitude and love to those who deserve it. I hope that we all may look upward for gratitude and the love the we receive every day. As a country, we don't do it enough. As Abraham Lincoln put it:
""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 number, 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 produced 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 the God who made us... It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
I couldn't agree more!
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