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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Dan Armistead

I've been reflecting on Abraham Lincoln's exhortation: about restoring the bonds of brotherhood. It occurred to me that accusation serves one purpose: disenfranchisement. It seems to me that both Moore and Trump may have been victims to some extent of political hit jobs by the political machines of church and Washington. Trump has been painted quite the psychopathic, sociopathic megalomaniac, and perhaps he's wired a bit that way. But the late Rich Mullins observed how little we revere one another as humans. I pray for Biden. And Hunter. And Trump. And I will never go along to get along, that would be lying. I supremely enjoyed watching Donald Trump sit down across from Kim in N Korea and tell the murderous dictator, whose people are forced to believe he is starving, as the stunted man baby puckered up: "Let's all try to look thin." Trump is an imperfect vessel, as is Biden. But Scripture is pretty clear that when you get to that level of power a king's heart falls into the hand of God. We are to pray for our leaders. So I pray for Biden now, or whomever is controlling him, that invisible nail scarred hands will guide him into the will of God. All is grace. Abraham Lincoln- We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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