Quote and Meditation: Call her blessed

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

— Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president (1809-65)

“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.’ ”

— Proverbs 31:28-29