In our new series inspired by Kevin Toolis’ book In My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die we consider again the topic of “how to live.”
A question that can help us consider how to live is to ask, are we alone or is some other entity – god, spirit, fate – somehow aware and perhaps even engaged with our lives.
I’ve been slowly reading And There Was Light, Abraham Lincoln, and the Americans Struggle by Jon Meacham where he shares this fascinating detail about his life,
“Lincoln once said. ‘I have had so many evidences of his direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.’ The common term for the divine governance of the world was “providence,” which literally means “seeing ahead.”
Do you believe, as Lincoln did, something is “seeing ahead” and providing guidance and direction within your life? If so, that is one way to live a life, trusting we are somehow integrated into a sequence of events that are purposeful and connected.
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