Tuesday, November 20, 2012

1862 November 21 Fauquier County, Va.

[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]


One of my greatest temptation is love for
company. Sometimes I find it hard to tear
myself away from everybody to spend an
hour alone--Can I love God & feel thus?  If
I loved him better than all else would I not
rather be with him: Oh! how inconsistent
my life is--how wicked my heart-O-God
I pray & beseech thee to enable me to know myself.
let me not be afraid, to search the depths
of my heart  But give me thy Holy Spirit
to search & know myself so that I may be
strengthened in my weakness through they grace
for thou has said, my grace is sufficient
for thee-My strength is made perfect in thy
weakness=Oh; give me that grace guide
govern & direct me through all my days
so that at last I may sleep, & when the trumpet
sounds awake in thy likeness.  O, God be
merciful unto -hear me, I pray thee for the
sake of thine only son Christ Jesus my
Saviour......
Tom Williams dined here=Cousin E[liza] & L[ena]
left after dinner
It is reported Jackson is moving up the
Valley again-so we will be left

[as transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor[\]

MSS  15406

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