November

Elections are right around the corner and I am so glad that these ads will soon be gone.  The media rules in America either through their reportiing or the ads that are allowed to run on these stations.

It is an important time for our nation and I hope that people go to their knees in prayer before going to the polls to vote.  With the enclosed voting booths and the confidentiality assumed in the voting process, no one will ever know how someone votes - which is a good thing.  I could stand in front of you and claim support for first one candidate and then another only to enter the polling place and actually vote completely different. 

It has been said that a man is only as good as his word, and at one time that was true.  There was also a time when a person knew everyone in his neighborhood, their families and most of their friends.  Times have changed, morals have changed, ethics have changed.  People say one thing and do another.  People no longer know each other, they know about each other.  It is a hard job to know where candidate stands on the issues at hand and how they will react when those issues are up for a vote.

Our congressmen, representatives, and senators are not among us when the vote counts and peer pressure in the legislature is tremendous.  All the money, the favors, the control and the power take over and the people back home are forgotten in the hoopla of the moment.  Family, friends, and neighbors are in the past and the power people are in the here and now. 

Think carefully when you go to the polls in the next 4 weeks.  Pray for our country and where it is headed.