Quote for 11/06/08

“No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”
Charles Dickens

President Barack Obama

Today we have President Elect Obama. I know this a historic moment. The African American community is beyond proud. I share this joy with them as many others do. What I want to stress right now though is this simple truth, Barack Obama was not elected by African Americans alone. While he carried the AA vote handidly, AAs only make up 13% of our population. Barack Obama is not going to be an African American President that only represents our African American population. He was not put into the White House by only AAs. He is our President whether we are black, white, yellow, red, brown, or even purple with pink polka dots!!! I think perhaps Colin Powell says it best.

Quote for 11/05/08

Every generation needs a new revolution. Thomas Jefferson

Quote for 11/04/08

I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am. -John Newton

Quiet Heroes

Only in the eyes of our grand parents can all of us, any of us, be President.

The Final Stretch

When you have made all the phone calls, knocked on all the doors, and sent out all of the flyers then you must find quiet. Tomorrow is election day and what is done is done. On Wednesday, we will go back to focusing on the people and things in our immediate lives. But for now, I find the Serenity Prayer and the Lord's Prayer running through my mind over and over. THE SERENITY PRAYER God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next.Amen. Reinhold Niebuhr THE LORD'S PRAYER
Latin version
Pater noster, qui es in caelis:
sanctificetur Nomen Tuum;
adveniat Regnum Tuum;
fiat voluntas Tua,
sicut in caelo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
Sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;
et ne nos inducas in tentationem;
sed libera nos a Malo.

1662
Our Father, which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done,
in earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
[For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.]

Quote for 11/03/08

I find myself, in my own nation, seeking the compassion of these words. So, from the Statue of Liberty...The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus, 1883