1 1st couple pre 1st Dance at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball

This first sentence out of his mouth that I have totally agreed with and that does make him a hope to me....when you can love your wife that much, in front of the world, not be prodded but be impromptu and overflowing in your love for her, during the busiest time in your life????? Too bad he is a democrat.....I would consider voting for him next time.....on the above stated fact alone....

Benediction for Obama's Inaugural by the Reverend Dr. Lowery

That's it. I am finding a church that has a pastor that can pray like that!!

Another year comes another year goes....

Okay. So this last year wasn't all that great on the surface....but underneath the harrowing exterior,  it was the best year of my life.  So many things I learned.  I cannot see what loss, sorrows and trials accomplish....I only need to trust. The only ONE I can trust and always have...my God. I have drawn closer to Him than I ever could have, had this past year been the same as the rest of my oh so doesn't-it-look-great-on-the-outside-life...not that I have arrived but at least I know ........what DO I know?!!! I know whom I have believed ....I have commited my heart....my soul.....and as a friend of mine has so brilliantly said...."I don't consider that I have captured it and made it my own yet, but this one thing I do know, it is my one aspiration; forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize."And the prize? Well, this side of life it IS life. The other side of life? Well, eye has not seen not ear heard....so, here is a clip from Mr. Henry David Thoreau for your enjoyment and cranial exercise and to celebrate the beginning of this year we call "new"...

"Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime. By closing the eyes and slumbering and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere, which still is built on purely illusory foundations. Children, who PLAY life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure. Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names."