Keller: Lincoln’s life a picture of resiliency
Published 12:01 am Saturday, March 3, 2018
I’m sure most of us get a little discouraged at times.
Many times I’ve felt like giving up. Life sometimes seems unfair, and we feel alone and hopeless. We question whether we have a purpose in life.
Many years ago, I read the following in a newsletter published by the University of Alabama’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN – BIOGRAPHY OF A FAILURE
• Difficult childhood.
• Less than a year formal schooling.
• Failed in business in 1831.
• Defeated for legislature, ’32.
• Again failed in business, ’33.
• Elected to legislature, ’34.
• Fiancée died, ’35.
• Defeated for Speaker, ’38.
• Defeated for Elector, ’40.
• Married, wife a burden, ’42.
• 1 of his 4 sons lived past 18.
• Defeated for Congress, ’43.
• Elected to Congress, ’46.
• Defeated for Congress, ’48.
• Defeated for Senate, ’55.
• Defeated for Vice-President, ’56.
• Defeated for Senate, ’58.
• Elected President, ’60.
When former President Bush asked the country to join in a national day of prayer, he invoked the memory of Abraham Lincoln, who during the Civil War “turned to prayer, saying: ‘I’ve been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I have nowhere else to go.’’
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