Here's how I feel (a rant)

Let me get my politics out in the open here.

I'm a Republican. I didn't vote for President Obama. I was going to, but once I was in the booth I just couldn't. However, a few people who are REALLY close to me did vote for him, and that's great. This is America.

I have to say I'm very proud of my country today.

In the early- to mid-sixties I always watched the evening news, and I remember being so ashamed that there were human beings in this country who couldn't enter a public school without being spit on and yelled at, or worse... even killed. It bothered me that there were people who were welcome to work behind the counter at Woolworths with my mom, but weren't allowed to sit at that counter and eat. My mom didn't like it either. Nor my dad. I remember their conversations about it.

Today I watched a brown-skinned man take the oath of office. We've come a long way, baby. (I hate having to call people "black" when they're brown, so I don't.)

I'm bothered by things people are saying here and there; but I'm especially bothered by people who call themselves Christians who are saying so many negative things.

I hear them saying they're scared. All through the Bible I read the words, "Fear not". Why are you afraid, followers of Jesus?

You may not like this, but God is color-blind.

I hear people prophesying gloom and doom. What happened to your faith in God, Christians? Don't you see that God is big enough to use anyone? At a church I used to attend we often sang a song that said, "If You can use anyone, You can use me...". Well, if He can use me, He can surely use Barack Obama.

Why not wait and see what happens before you complain?

Pray for our president. Give him a chance.

But I do think Aretha should lose the hat.

(The very people who ran me off a message board are now having problems accepting certain opinions? What goes around, comes around.)