Born this day in 1948 was Clarence Thomas~
associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1991, whose appointment to replace Thurgood Marshall (the court’s first African American justice) gave the court a conservative cast.
1314~
began the Battle of Bannockburn, a decisive engagement in Scottish history whereby the Scots defeated the English, regained their independence, and established Robert the Bruce as Robert I.
1961~
The Antarctic Treaty was enacted, reserving the entire continent for free and nonpolitical scientific investigation.
1940~
Sprinter Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics, was born.
1925~
An expedition under A.H. MacCarthy and H.F. Lambert became the first to reach the summit of Mount Logan, the second highest mountain in North America.
1865~
The Cherokee chief and Confederate general Stand Watie surrendered at the close of the American Civil War—one of the last Confederate commanders to do so.
1817~
Popular English actor John Philip Kemble retired after his last performance, in which he played Coriolanus.
1298~
German King Adolf of Nassau was deposed in favour of Albert I.

Taken from Joy and Strength devotion @ Back to the Bible
Bible Passage Matthew 6:25-34
WAS in the act of kneeling down before the Lord my God,
when a little bird came and perched near my window, and thus preached to me:
“O thou grave man, look on me, and learn something,
if not the deepest lesson, then a true one.
Thy God made me, and the like of me;
and, if thou canst conceive it,
loves me and cares for me.
Thou studiest Him in great problems,
which oppress and confound thee:
thou losest sight of one half of His ways.
Learn to see thy God not in great mysteries only, but in me also.
His burden on me is light,
His yoke on me is easy;
but thou makest burdens and yokes for thyself which are very grievous to be borne.
Things deep as Hell and high as Heaven thou considerest overmuch;
but thou dost not ‘consider the lilies’ sufficiently.
lf thou couldst be as a lily before God,
for at least one hour in the twenty-four,
it would do thee good:
I mean, if thou couldst cease to will and to think, and be only.
Consider, the lily is as really from God as thou art,
and is a figure of something in Him–the like of which should also be in thee.
Thou longest to grow, but the lily grows without longing;
yes, without even thinking or willing,
grows and is beautiful both to God and man.”
JOHN PULSFORD

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