Election Results

It's almost lunch time, 11:45 a.m. on November 4, and I am ready to be the first to publicly declare a winner in today's election. The winner is...

The American People!

At 7:30 a.m. this morning the church parking lot was full. Why? Because a polling place is located in the lobby of the apartments behind our building. The parking lot has filled and emptied all morning long. I voted down the street at the location of another church that held a polling place. The line went out the door and down the sidewalk. It took thirty-five minutes to vote. Where else but in America is there such a demonstration of Freedom and the right of the people to Choose leadership! I truly wish the turnout was this good on every election, local and national. Could it be that our greatest threat is complacency?

In my young life, this was my tenth time to have the privilege to vote in a presidential election. I asked the couple behind me in line, how many presidential elections have you voted in? "I don't know", she said, "Eisenhour, 1952 was our first election." I thought to myself, that was just a few years before I was born.

I simply want to lift up and accentuate the positive today, that even with all of the bad news, there remains some good news. People of America, we all won the election today. We all have the right to vote on our governing leadership.

Thank you Lord, for letting me live in a corner of the world where my opinion officially counts.

Grace and peace with a song in my heart,
SongWriter