America's Greatness
One of the worst things that could be said about any of us is that greatness passed before us, and we failed to recognize it.
It happened to me yesterday when I found myself out of sorts because my best friend was en route to harm’s way via a military deployment but still took time to call to tell me the sunset he’d just witnessed reminded him of me. Busted. I missed out on the greatness of the moment because I was focused on myself.
If anyone had an excuse to fail to see greatness, it was President Abraham Lincoln. As war-weary as he was with a country in the throes of collapse, Lincoln still saw greatness when he gazed beyond the bloody battlefields and divided mess that was post-Civil War America and envisioned a nation our founders could be proud of that was once again “one nation under God”. Cont. Reading
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