ANOTHER INCREDIBLE GIANT

ANOTHER INCREDIBLE GIANT

"I can do the very best I know how -- the very best I can; and I mean to
keep doing so." -- President Abraham Lincoln

This giant of a man and a life of great difficulty and sorrow:

1831 -- Failed in business

1832 -- Defeated for legislature

1833 -- Again failed in business

1834 -- Elected to legislature
1835-- Sweetheart died

1836-- Had a nervous breakdown

1838-- Defeated for Speaker

1840-- Defeated for elector

1843-- Defeated for Congress

1846-- Elected to Congress

1848-- Defeated for Congress

1855-- Defeated for Senate

1856-- Defeated for Vice-President

1858-- Defeated for Senate

1860-- ELECTED PRESIDENT

" . . . A crisis does not make character; a crisis REVEALS character. A
man's character is what he habitually is." -- Oswald Chambers

Good words to consider on this day to honor President Abraham Lincoln's
birthday.