mistyroses Address

I was inspired by The Gettysburg Address given by Abraham Lincoln during the American civil war. I want to share this message I was inspired to write that came form the message he shared all those years ago.

Many years ago our brother Christ brought forth in this world an opportunity to experience a greater life, conceived on the principle of agency, and dedicated to the proposition that God is no respecter of persons; that we are all His beloved children.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether a world or any world so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. And whether a soul or any soul so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. For what is a world but the proving ground for a soul. We have come to dedicate this world and our souls, as a gift for Christ and those who have given their lives in His name that we might live to manifest the glory of God. 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 world. For Christ, He who has risen from the grave and has broken the chains of death has consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world may take little notice, nor remember much of what we say or do here, but it can never forget what Christ has done. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the work that will continue to bring others into the warm embrace and healing that can only come from His unconditional love and forgiveness. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from His great sacrifice followed by His great gift by which He has shown us the depth and commitment of His love—that we who have been given the great gift of everlasting life, choose to be resolved that He did not give His life in vain—that this world and we souls, children of God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that we choose to be here, living and being present in every moment that life presents, promising to live with all of the love, passion, and commitment that is inside of us and never leave this world until our Father calls us home.