God Bless the President of the United States

I'm watching live coverage of the inauguration as I write. Say what you want about the what the next four years portend for our nation, the spectacle is truly amazing. For the forty fourth time in our history, a peaceful transition of power is occurring. The reins of government of the most prosperous and most powerful government is being transferred constitutionally, not by assassination, or at the point of a bayonet. It a spectacle which demands and deserves all the pageantry and pomp we can muster.

I can disagree with the new President, but I must celebrate the event of his Inauguration. So long as the peaceful transition of power occurs in the nation there is hope. Not the hope of political jingoism, but true hope of the spirit. Not the vague promise of change, but the very real promise of conversion.

Let's not mourn or bemoan the installation of the man as president, but rather let's celebrate the event which marks the continuity of our government. Celebrate the day. Celebrate our freedom. Celebrate our nation. We can fight tomorrow.

God bless the President of the United States. God bless the United States of America.

Til next time, all the best. Joe