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This is not a scriptural reference, nor was it intended as one. President Bush was quoting someone else, and that person was commenting upon the tides of history and this nation.

The reference was certainly not to the election or the recount mess. It was instead referring to the course of our history, and God's providential hand within it. Re-read the quote that MJY1288 posted above:

"We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in service to one nother.

Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today, to make our country more just and generous, to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life.

This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm."

If you can find the entire Inaugural Address, which unfortunately I thought I had bookmarked, but I don't, you can read the first reference to this at the beginning of the speech. The quote was, I believe, in a letter between two of the founders of the country.