thanksgiving...

"No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." -A. Lincoln's Thankgiving speech.

God Alone

let nothing disturb you,
nothing frighten you,
all things are passing,
patient endurance attains all things.
one whom GOD posesses lacks nothing,
for GOD alone suffices.
-Teresa of Avila