I do the very best I know how; the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything.
-A. Lincoln.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on.
-Abraham Lincoln.
The lives of true heroism are those in which
There are no great deeds to look back upon.
It is the little things well done that go
To make up a successful and truly good life.
-Theodore Roosevelt.
The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth….Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you….Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you; and ye shall seek Me with all your heart.
-Psalm 145:18, James 4:8, Jeremiah 29:12,13.
PRAYER
Richard C. Trench
Lord, what a change within us one short hour
Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make;
What heavy burdens from our bosoms take;
What parched grounds refeshed as with a shower!
We kneel – and all about us seems to lower;
We rise – and all, the distant and the near,
Stands forth in sunny outline, brave and clear,
We kneel, how weak! We rise, how full of power!
Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong,
Or others, that we are not always strong;
That we are over borne with care,
Anxious and troubled, when with us is prayer,
And joy and strength and courage are with Thee.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.
-Isaiah 40:31.
I know not by what methods rare;
But this I know, God answers prayer.
I know that He has given His word,
Which tells me that prayer is always heard
And will be answered soon or late;
And so I pray, and calmly wait;
I know not if the blessings sought
Will come in just the way I thought,
But leave my prayers with Him alone,
Whose will is wiser than my own,
Assured that He will grant my quest,
Or send some answer far more blest.
He answered prayer,
Not in the way I sought,
Not in the way I thought He ought,
But in His own good way, and I can see,
He answered in the fashion best for me.
Each day I pray, God give me strength anew
To do the task I do not wish to do.
To yield obedience, not asking why,
To love and own the truth and scorn the lie,
To look a cold world bravely in the face,
To cheer for those that pass me in the race.
To bear my burdens gaily, unafraid
To lend a hand to those that need my aid.
To measure what I am by what I give.
God give me strength that I may rightly live!