Think before you take a drink. You could be responsible for another face on that board. Shar Porier is a reporter for The Banks County News. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. These words are as true today as they were in 1863 when president Abraham Lincoln wrote them.
People take their blessings for granted.
They expect to receive and seldom give. In 1863, president Abraham Lincoln called on his fellow Americans to take time to thank God for their blessings. He even set aside the day that it was to be done. The president was concerned that people had forgotten about God and what He had done for them. Lincoln had the right idea.