"We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us - they help us learn to be patient. And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady. Then, when that happens, we are able to hold our heads high no matter what happens and know that all is well, for we know how dearly God loves us, and we feel this warm love everywhere within us because God has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love." 
"Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the mind and healing to the body."
~ Proverbs 16:24 
6-29-2009
"May He Give You the desire of Your heart and make all Your plans succeed."
~ Psalm 20:4 NIV
For my "Meow-day" entry 
on Sept.12th 
I asked the following:
Who said this?
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation . . . "
a) Ulyess S. Grant
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Frederick Douglass
Reviewer11 
you are absolutely positively 
correct-o-moon-do 
!!!! Abraham Lincoln did indeed say those words . . . it is actually the opening line from The Gettysburg Address . . . a short speech 
that President Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President, delivered at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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