Reenacting History... and Making It Too
Reenacting History... and Making It Too
This weekend will find us attending another Civil War reenactment, so I will not be posting this Friday and perhaps also next Tuesday. I invite you to meanwhile browse the blog archives or read my other pages. Perhaps you would like to read my account of Oklawaha 2007 or Narcoose 2008.
Today is election day and some of you have the great privilege and opportunity to help shape American history. Whichever man reaches the White House, though, we can rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign. That man will govern because our God gave him that power!
At present, I am not concerned with results. God’s will ought to be our aim, and I am quite contented that his designs should be accomplished and not mine. Robert E. Lee
Remember to bring all of our leaders up the God in prayer.
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
First Timothy 2:1-4
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.
General Robert E. Lee
Photographs: (Title photograph) © A Still Small Voice, April 2008. Relics of Yesteryear. © Handmaidens of the Shepherd, October 2007.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008