What did Lincoln see

One side would make war

rather than let the nation survive

The other accept it rather than

let it perish

It has been 4 years this month since I was last in Washington DC. As I have done several times I went to the Lincoln Memorial. It was snowing and it was cold. Climbing the steps to see this statue of Lincoln is always exciting. You can look back accross the mall to the Washington Monument and beyond.







If you were standing in this spot then behind where you stood would be the "Second Inaugural Address" engraved on the wall. This speech is in many ways really Lincoln's Greatest Speech. (see book reveiw link)

703 words. Talking about Scripture. Talking about God. Suggesting that a proper approach for the nation going forward was to have "Malice towards none and charity towards all".


C.S Lewis said that in reading we can become a thousand men and still remain ourself. See with a myriad of eyes. We can trancend ourselves.

Being at the beginning of a New Year is like finding a new book. To look forward with a thousand eyes and to wonder what it will bring is exciting. What a great New Years goal

Charity towards all and malice towards none