A Penitent Blogger

Mindful of my imperfections, seeking to know Truth more deeply and to live Love more fully.

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? Quem patronum rogaturus? Cum vix iustus sit securus?
Recordare, Iesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae: Ne me perdas illa die...

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Eleven score and eleven years ago today

"our fathers brought forth upon this continent
a new nation
conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal
."

May we live that way,
"as God gives us to see the right."

(The first quote, of course, is from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - with the count of years updated. The second quote is from his Second Inaugural Address: "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 to finish the work we are in,to bind up the nation’s wounds,to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan,to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.")