With malice toward none, with charity (love) for all,
with firmness in
the right as God gives us to know the right,
let us strive to
finish the work that we are in
To bind up the
nations wounds,
to care for him (them) who shall
have born the battle and
for his (their) widows and orphans
to do all which may achieve and cherish
a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and all nations.
These words were spoken by Abraham Lincoln at his second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865
Were these words the seeds of the first Memorial Day celebration three years later (May 30, 1868),
referred to in my last blog?
Was the violent act of hatred and war, the assassination of Lincoln on April 15th, 42 days later,
a seed, or a catalyst for this action?
referred to in my last blog?
Was the violent act of hatred and war, the assassination of Lincoln on April 15th, 42 days later,
a seed, or a catalyst for this action?
What seeds are you sowing?
What seeds are you watering?
What seeds are you trampling under foot?
Seeds of peace and not strife are scattered on the battle fields of all wars. The seeds cry out for a better way. May we pray and work towards a better way so that Memorial Day will be a historic day of recalling how we used to settle differences with war and have matured to respect all differences and settle all disputes with maturity and mutuality toward and from all!
Jesus who was willing to sacrifice his own life when he had done nothing deserving of death teaches us that love conquers all enemies of life and death.
The Jesus way is not the way of any particular church but the way of sacrifice as the way to love and peace.
That world is the world that has no end,
The world of war will have an end
For in the end,
Love declares there is no end!
Jesus who was willing to sacrifice his own life when he had done nothing deserving of death teaches us that love conquers all enemies of life and death.
The Jesus way is not the way of any particular church but the way of sacrifice as the way to love and peace.
That world is the world that has no end,
The world of war will have an end
For in the end,
Love declares there is no end!
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