Abraham Lincoln
A quilt square stitched as a letter of Presidential “Pardons” with love and compassion.
Excerpts from a 6-page message to the future President.
Former President Abraham Lincoln speaks after a brief introduction from President Kennedy. In highlighting the values and principles he shared with John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the former president states that, “...the main point is that each of us was for peace!"
“I may be remembered mostly for my death, but you, the people, knew not that my inner world was a tumultuous series of signals asking the Universal Source, whom many call God, for direction…for a noble direction to leave my Footsteps. And that the Imprints in the sands of life were not me wanting greatness, but simply feeling the tall order of things that bounced around in my soul, awaiting their birth.”
The former President referred to the words of his historic speech [Gettysburg Address], emphasizing the significance of America being a nation “conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
“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.”
This former president urges the President-elect to reconsider the sweeping reforms and claims he wishes to perpetuate. He recognizes the need for an earthly president to limit or place an orderliness around immigration but cautions against actions that would set one side against another. Sharing his perspective from the invisible world of spirit now, he initiates a conversation with the future President that includes bridge-building and pardons rather than division and consternation.
“As President-elect and soon-to-be President, from whom will you seek guidance? And, of that guidance given you, what will you follow?”
“I also desired to reach out, not necessarily as a platform for my run for president, but to have a podium from which to speak, knowing I needed to build bridges between our nation’s leader and a populace that was misunderstood and forsaken.”
“I heard the voice of God because I sought the voice of God. When I understood that God was revealing His voice through someone with a message urgent for my attention, upon which hinged more than I could imagine, I—trembled, yes, but with conviction, I followed it with conviction.”
“Do we share this—choice? This destiny?”
“I led a war-torn nation that found its fabric had tears and, in tears, longed in anticipation for something more.
What Came? Vision-tations!
Vision. Vision for a nation that would house so many pillars of life from their “old” countries. Clairvoyance to see the steps along winding trails that brought them to the New World. These predated us. Their dreams, from thousands of miles away, infused the air we breathed and existed before us. In an unprecedented measure, the stations of our cross were stops made back in the times of bloody battles and intolerable spews of hatred, even brother against brother.
This was the time of my presidency—when citizens walked a road of great divergence and, hence, stirred my own anxiety about my load of tasks to unite a country. A country that had become untethered and was missing its ties to bind us together and create the roads and pathways to ensure our freedom. And our unalienable rights.
After the war, these were the amazing sticks and stones I needed to use to build again, to assist a people who could withstand their very personal feelings of hatred and instead begin to turn toward love and embrace the ‘other side’ of the beliefs and policies they had been holding in their hearts and minds. Those annals made so much sense to them that they were willing to fight others to build semblances of lives that they prayed to regain.”