Where has time gone?

I've been a bit remiss in posting to this blog.  Would it suffice to say the life got in the way?  Since my last post:

1. I've made my 3rd annual pilgramage to the Grand Canyon for some much needed R&R.  See Royal Arch and The Tonto Trail: It's done! Or is it?  for my write-up of this trip.
   
2. The 2010 mid-term elections are now history.  The Congress is now split with the Republicans having a majority in the House while the Senate still belongs to the Democrats.  It's time for some good old fashioned gridlock instead of the Freeway to Hades we've had during the past two years.  See my post Degenerative & Gridlock: Are these positive or negative words for my thoughts on gridlock in Washington.
3. I have a formal complaint against me at work.  If it wasn't so time consuming, it would actually be funny.  I'll know in a day or two how it turns out.
4. I went to my Grandson's 2nd grade class as the mystery reader.  I had a lot of fun reading to 2nd graders and having lunch in the school cafeteria with his class. 
5. Halloween is over and it's almost Thanksgiving!
6. And finally, My third daughter has announced her engagement and upcoming wedding.

In reflecting on Thanksgiving, I looked through my files and found the following proclamation.  Given the current situation in the U.S., could such a proclamation be made today?

Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.

Know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.

A. Lincoln, October 3, 1863

Although the current President states that he is a Christian, I don't believe it and I certainly don't think that he would have the conviction to make a similar proclamation (My rationale for thinking that Obama doesn't believe or believe in Christ, 'By their works shall ye know them').