It's a new year, and I've decided that I need to trim back a number if nice things in order to focus on where God seems to be leading me.

To that end, I'm going to officially stop posting on LiveJournal. Most of my friends have moved on (officially or otherwise), and it's really a pain to try and juggle multiple writing venues.

I'll keep the account ( Read more... )

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and ( Read more... )

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion and religious meditation, Scripture-reading, etc. Hence I am lean and cold and hard. I had better allot two hours or an hour and a half ( Read more... )