tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post6401238836427643520..comments2024-03-18T08:33:25.907-04:00Comments on Inkwell Inspirations: 150 Years LaterLisa Karon Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02175430876079208723noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-37057370168808713562011-04-13T00:13:18.083-04:002011-04-13T00:13:18.083-04:00CJ, I wished I could have come back today to discu...CJ, I wished I could have come back today to discuss this more. This was a great post and I love how much research you did for this. <br /><br />I haven't seen Amazing Grace, but it's on my list.<br /><br />Something funny happened while we were eating dinner tonight. My husband started talking about conflicting statistics he'd heard today about Civil War casualties. He wondered whichSuzie Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296203324088418271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-79932634614701055072011-04-12T17:51:25.624-04:002011-04-12T17:51:25.624-04:00Great history lesson! Thanks.Great history lesson! Thanks.Faithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03150290024386704712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-35581106048550295572011-04-12T17:34:08.624-04:002011-04-12T17:34:08.624-04:00Dina, my husband doesn't look anything like hi...Dina, my husband doesn't look anything like his great-grandfather, who was 6' tall and blue-eyed and blond. Dh takes after his mother's side -- short and dark. But our oldest looks more like the Chase side again -- blond and already taller than his dad.<br /><br />Funny how that works.C.J. Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026386802434435296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-72306473413249964572011-04-12T17:23:41.003-04:002011-04-12T17:23:41.003-04:00Anita, you MUST get Amazing Grace. Don't bothe...Anita, you MUST get Amazing Grace. Don't bother renting it. Just buy it, so you can watch it again and again. It will really inspire you. With God, one man can change the world -- though He doesn't promise us it will be easy. Here's a link to the trailer:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Cv5P9H9qUC.J. Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026386802434435296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-46635608317190733762011-04-12T16:07:18.176-04:002011-04-12T16:07:18.176-04:00Wonderful post, CJ. So that's why CNN was talk...Wonderful post, CJ. So that's why CNN was talking about the Civil War. I thought it was nice that they're talking about it because it seems to be treated like the Vietnam War - pushed aside and ignored. At least, that's the way it seems to me up here. I suppose if I'd stayed on CNN I would've found out but the blurb on the bottom of the screen didn't explain anything and IAnita Mae Draperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618699900826731377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-53313026952607716152011-04-12T15:04:42.574-04:002011-04-12T15:04:42.574-04:00We have a picture of a union soldier relative who ...We have a picture of a union soldier relative who looks just like my brother and father.Dina Sleimanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05214446103057806111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-67623703494891523222011-04-12T15:01:42.001-04:002011-04-12T15:01:42.001-04:00Susie, I may have to check out the site. The pictu...Susie, I may have to check out the site. The picture on the post (no, not Ioan, the soldier ) was my husband's great-grandfather. We also have a diary (in the safe now, I believe) and copies of a couple of letters -- including the one he wrote to his future wife's father asking for permission to marry his daughter. The way they used language back then was so elegant. George Chase was a C.J. Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026386802434435296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-29939022606267309532011-04-12T14:50:09.919-04:002011-04-12T14:50:09.919-04:00Thanks, Sylvia. I really do think the South was in...Thanks, Sylvia. I really do think the South was in the right Constitutionally. (Just reading the first line of the Declaration of Indpendence makes me believe the Founders would have agreed that states had a right to secede.) But Lincoln was definitely a smart politician. Most of the Christian world had come to see slavery as morally wrong, so when Lincoln changed the focus of the war to C.J. Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026386802434435296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-69450989660106422502011-04-12T13:02:50.520-04:002011-04-12T13:02:50.520-04:00Important post, CJ.
Today and tomorrow, Ancestry....Important post, CJ.<br /><br />Today and tomorrow, Ancestry.com is offering free access to their Civil War records. I got on to investigate my great-great grandfather and learned he was a drummer and fought in several battles as well as numerous skirmishes. It's amazing he survived -- his regiment also had a smallpox epidemic. Anyway, I was so excited I wrote a post about it on my blog.<br />Susanne Dietzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-30589814210717229252011-04-12T11:40:10.820-04:002011-04-12T11:40:10.820-04:00Your post so eloquently delivers a message against...Your post so eloquently delivers a message against slavery--at every level--and so thoughtfully presented the south's position. I'm a southern girl and have struggled with this. It is sad that the south felt that state's rights had to be coupled with slavery, but thankfully, the war did do away with physical slavery in the legal sense. Some day we will be free from it in every sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-74529940207486598072011-04-12T10:45:27.367-04:002011-04-12T10:45:27.367-04:00Suzie, I had originally intended a simple Civil Wa...Suzie, I had originally intended a simple Civil War history post but found myself being led in a slightly different direction. The research was unpleasant. But sometimes we need a nudge out of our comfort zones if we are to make a difference.<br /><br />I hadn't thought of it until now, but for the time being, I'm writing books set in the early 1800's. I did drop Wilberforce's C.J. Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026386802434435296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-62235727618794518602011-04-12T10:38:58.453-04:002011-04-12T10:38:58.453-04:00Dina, I knew Paul used the slavery example as a me...Dina, I knew Paul used the slavery example as a metaphore for sin until I wrote the post -- but I hadn't realized how often he used it until I wrote the post. <br /><br />How sad that it is more applicable than ever.C.J. Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026386802434435296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-57072159411754384012011-04-12T10:08:04.551-04:002011-04-12T10:08:04.551-04:00Deb, about, oh, probably 5 years ago (before Amazi...Deb, about, oh, probably 5 years ago (before Amazing Grace came out), I was with my eldest in the children's section of the library. I was looking for a kid's biography of Wilberforce for school. (He's homeschooled.) I found almost an entire shelf of biographies of Oprah Winfrey, but not a single one for Wilberforce. And yet, without a Wilberforce, there may well have never been a C.J. Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026386802434435296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-88718828259364174112011-04-12T10:00:33.401-04:002011-04-12T10:00:33.401-04:00Thanks, Lisa. When I read that survey years ago, I...Thanks, Lisa. When I read that survey years ago, I was rather shocked at first. I was probably late teens or so, and I couldn't believe people my age thought it was the government's responsibility to find them jobs. I mean, I know getting a job can be tough (especially these days), but you're going to spend a lot of your life with those people and doing those tasks. Not something I C.J. Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026386802434435296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-79171645462173737942011-04-12T09:48:23.027-04:002011-04-12T09:48:23.027-04:00I agree, Dina. I actually read some disturbing inf...I agree, Dina. I actually read some disturbing info on the subject of child slavery just this weekend. It tore my heart up.<br /><br />Great post, CJ.Suzie Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296203324088418271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-68027474986270239772011-04-12T09:30:49.817-04:002011-04-12T09:30:49.817-04:00It's so sad that slavery still exists in our w...It's so sad that slavery still exists in our world, but very true that it comes in more forms than we tend to think of.Dina Sleimanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05214446103057806111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-6064826183214704842011-04-12T08:42:20.704-04:002011-04-12T08:42:20.704-04:00Wonderful post, CJ! I have always been fascinated ...Wonderful post, CJ! I have always been fascinated with the Civil War in the U.S. but slavery still exists in many ways around the world. <br /><br />Thank you for this beautiful reminder of the true freedom we find in Christ.<br /><br />Oh - I love Amazing Grace--own it and re-watch it often.Debra E. Marvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17853387871623424853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502152359497137754.post-19390316775712591722011-04-12T07:21:11.910-04:002011-04-12T07:21:11.910-04:00Thought provoking post, CJ. Bondage comes in so ma...Thought provoking post, CJ. Bondage comes in so many forms. I remember how... contained the Russian people were when was there. On the one hand they were desperate for the Word of Truth. They soaked it up. But when they got it they were fearful of responding. It was so foreign to the nature to show public emotion, that tears would brim, you could tell that they ached to raise their hands, but Lisa Karon Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02175430876079208723noreply@blogger.com