Inauguration 2009

   Yes, I'm back.  I know it's been almost three months since I last posted. I have no excuses, however I do have an explanation.  I have issues with record keeping things, i.e., journals, blogging, family email updates, etc. Whenever I get behind in a record keeping activity I can't just jump in where I'm currently at in life, I have to go back and recap everything up to that point. I just can't let it go, so when I stopped blogging after Halloween I couldn't just jump to Christmas and skip Thanksgiving let alone blog about any of the day to day thing that come to mind.  I still have my blogging dreams but I can't see them through until I've made up for the lost time in blog posts. I know this is crazy but my mind can't get over the fact that I've skipped something. So why am I all of a sudden blogging? Well, as I watched the Today Show this morning I had some thoughts that I wanted to share and somehow pushed through that need to recap first. 

Anyways, what this means is that after this post I will be going back and recapping the last three months - at least the highlight events.

So the Inauguration - did anyone else watch.  I was very interested in this particular inauguration.  Our nations 44th President! To start out, I did not vote for Barack Obama.  However, I believe that it is important to support our elected leaders and therefore I do support our new President. I am a little nervous however.  I truly believe that President Obama has enormous potential to do good in our country and in the world. He has so much support and is a natural leader.  In the words of the Obama political mantra, I have hope for this President. Yet, I can't seem to shake this nagging feeling I have that while he has so much potential for good that his policies might be truly scary.  One line from his speech just keeps running through my head.  "We need to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again remaking America."  Now that may not be the exact wording but I find it so interesting that he used the word "remake". He could have said renew, revitalize or reestablish, all of which convey some sense of a return to our past or of bolstering up but he said remake. That to me sounds like he wants to change much of what makes America, America.  

My greatest fear is that he has plans leading us down a road of government control where our freedom is slowly but surely diminished. The scariest part is that I believe if this is the course of action he takes that in the beginning his ideas and solutions will be embraced whole heartily but most of the American public. It will only be later that they realize that they no longer have the choice and freedom to choose what is best for themselves and their families, there will be only the one choice, mandated from the government. I just hope he remembers that while he may have a wonderful solution, it is still the people's right to choose that solution for themselves not have his solution mandated to us.

Well enough of my ramblings. I will just keep praying that freedom, agency and choice prevail. Our country is built on those principles. They set us apart from the world. I will continue to have HOPE!