How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world. -Shakespeare
America has had the great privilege of two opportunities and we have chosen. I am filled with pride and tears watching my African American brothers and sisters rejoice in the streets. I am absolutely thrilled over this historic milestone. It is a moving moment to understand that old men and old women, grandsons and granddaughters of slaves and slaveholders, will look to an African-American as President. As someone who counseled, at a great personal cost, the black women in my college and saw first hand the shacks they were striving to pull themselves up from, I am so proud of our nation.
The quiet contrast at the grocery store today was unsettling, the guy whistling while he stocked potato chips seemed out of place. It’s more of a sadness that our State Senator John McCain did not win than anything else. Teddy Roosevelt wrote:
Now allow me to speak on behalf of my culture and heritage. My sincerest and deepest hope is that the Democrats will find a way to bring our troops home with honor and dignity. Unfortunately I believe that to ask for victory is too much and a word many would choke on. If they do not, then we will see a new generation of homeless vets on the streets of America who trust neither the government, nor the American people.
I am praying for Obama to have wisdom and peace, there is no doubt I will be opposing many of his social policy issues. I will strive to do so civilly, sacrificially if necessary and within the context of my afforded rights. It is my hope to do so with the balance of grace and truth in my heart.
Devotion
The quiet contrast at the grocery store today was unsettling, the guy whistling while he stocked potato chips seemed out of place. It’s more of a sadness that our State Senator John McCain did not win than anything else. Teddy Roosevelt wrote:
- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Now allow me to speak on behalf of my culture and heritage. My sincerest and deepest hope is that the Democrats will find a way to bring our troops home with honor and dignity. Unfortunately I believe that to ask for victory is too much and a word many would choke on. If they do not, then we will see a new generation of homeless vets on the streets of America who trust neither the government, nor the American people.
I am praying for Obama to have wisdom and peace, there is no doubt I will be opposing many of his social policy issues. I will strive to do so civilly, sacrificially if necessary and within the context of my afforded rights. It is my hope to do so with the balance of grace and truth in my heart.
Devotion