During America’s bloody civil war, while tens of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers were dying on battlefields, President Abraham Lincoln looked through the haze of war and still saw the good in America. In October 1863 he drafted a proclamation that still aects us 161 years later. He etched out the divine blessings our young nation still had, even in the face of deathly division and the evils of slavery.He wrote, “No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing ...