The 2008 Presidential election is over and Barak Obama has been elected as the next President of the United States.  I am forty seven years old and I wasn't sure if I would live to see a President who would be black. I feel it was time.  Even though I do not agree with Obama's philosophy of government and have great concerns about his stand on social and moral values, it is time.

The America my parents grew up with is gone and it will never return regardless of how many wish it would. This new America is about a country of cultural and ethnic diversity and that is something that you just can't discard or throw out. On the Statue of Liberty is this inscription, "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-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."America has been inviting the outcast to it's shores for the past two centuries and yet we act surprised that our country does not contain only the white descendants of the early British, Scottish and Irish settlers.

My qualms about the direction of the country is that everyone whines and demands rights. The rights that the constitution gives us as citizens are stated correctly, those given to us by our Creator. The right to freedom and to live our lives as we choose.  I am concerned that Christians are portrayed as ignorant, intolerable citizens who hold back the progression of our country. Many intellectuals both in the scientific community and in areas of government and finance are followers of Jesus. It is not a matter of intelligence, but a matter of faith.

I will pray for Barak Obama as I have other Presidents. I will pray that as a Christian, he will look to the one he claims to follow and not to infallible people for leadership and guidance. I will pray for him to have wisdom, a humble spirit, and for his safety. I call on you to pray for him as well.