Change Arrives
Families in Tennessee, Kansas, Texas, Wyoming, high school science classes, American history teachers, ministers, young and old have been calling in to express their best wishes to the incoming Obama family and administration.
In Washington D.C. our nation is performing one of the most formal, elaborate, and visually stunning ceremonies on Earth. Nearly 500 miles north in Boston the focus of many has shifted—millions watch the inauguration at schools, homes, and offices—but life continues, as it should, and as it will.
At 10:15 AM EST I switched on C-SPAN and direct my gaze towards Washington D.C. Later this afternoon I'll drive to Home Depot and mix paint colors. By then Barack Obama will be the President of the United States of America, and beginning the long and unenviable task of protecting our nation is a time of great domestic and global need.
On the television I see millions of spectators, celebrities, flags and police cars, but behind it I see a brave man doing what so few are willing and even fewer are capable of doing: assuming the greatest responsibility in the world. To understand this moment is not just to be in Washington, but to be a citizen at this moment on Earth.
May God bless Barack Obama, his family, and his administration.
1 comments:
God has bugger all to do with it, it's the American people who voted him in.
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