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Inauguration Day is upon us on Tuesday…it will bring about many changes, I am sure.  Our pastor talked today at church about the need to support our President, whether you agree with him or not.  So true.  I get irritated at the disrespect I hear towards presidents when they’ve done something wrong, or silly, or whatever.  I want to say “You try it for a day”.  We need to lift him up in prayer for his administration, his presidency, and not least, his family.  His girls are so young, and they will be growing up in front of a whole nation.  President and Mrs. Obama will be parenting them in front of a whole nation, too.  Not something I would be too keen on!

He is up against so many tough challenges, and I am afraid some have put too much hope in him.  I DO think he will do a good job in many areas, and bring about some needed changes.  But he’s a man.  He is human… not super-human.  The only place we should have true hope is in Christ.

I will be watching the inauguration on Tuesday.  It is exciting to see history in the making, and I will probably write something in Harrison’s baby book in the ‘current events’ section about the significance of this day.  What a coincidence that Martin Luther King Day is Monday.

And I will be praying for the new president and his family.

We went to the Quad Cities today, and I stopped and got a Starbucks drink.  They have red, white and blue sleeves on their drinks currently, and the following quote was on mine:

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

President Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

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