February 1

PATRIOTISM is putting our trust in God

This is impossible for man, but for God everything is possible. 
~ Matthew 19:26

After being elected president, Abraham Lincoln stayed in Springfield, Illinois, until it was time for his inauguration. 

Times were bad:  states were seceding, and the South was readying for war.  Lincoln walked to the rear platform and spoke his farewell to the crowd:  “Here I lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man.  Here my children have been born, and one buried.  I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.”  ~ Mark Link, S.J.

When have you said farewell to a happy past and set out to face an uncertain future?  When was the last time our assembly ventured into a seemingly insurmountable task?

Without the assistance of the Divine Being… that attended George Washington, I cannot succeed.  With that assistance, I cannot fail.
~ Abraham Lincoln