I love the USA

On Tuesday of this week we elected a new president! What a historic day in America! No where else in the world can people argue and fight and say vicious things about each other for 20 or so months and then when the election is over, we get up and we smile and congradulate the person who won(if we lost) and get behind the new president and show the world that we are the USA, united always. As most of you know,I love the current president(and yes I have disagreed with him on things) but I still love him(i have to admit he stretched it thin recently when he voted to
rescue banks and try to help wall street, but that's another story). However, if you listened to his speech on 2/5(find it on the net and read it) you will see the character of this current president. And for now I am going to take at face value what Obama says about being a uniter, after all he is half and half and what does that make him? It makes him more aware than any of us what it is like to live in a world where people judge you on the color of your skin and not your character!(Now those who voted against him will say that they voted so because of his character! news flash, we don't know his real character, only what we have read and heard, now I would hate for people to judge me only by some past mistakes I have made, so now today he must have a clean slate and we begin to judge him by what he does after Jan. 20. )
As for this old lady I will and have been praying for him, for he has the greatest task that any president has ever had, why? he is the first black (half and half) president, those of you who are lds think about how Romney would have been judged had he been elected, would all have seen him as an american, or would people have seen him as "a mormon president" wouldn't Romney have had to stand a little taller and been a little better than a president of another religion? It is my prayer that each time we look at Pres. Obama we will see a man who will have to stand a
little taller and be a little better because he carrys on his back the weight of many predjudices just as Romney would have had on his back!

Much has been said about the American eagle and how it has two wings and how there must be balance! This is so true, for without two sides where would our agency be? Just as we can't force any man to Heaven we can't force anyone to be anything, but we can show them truth and lead the way by the life we live.

Now for a quick story, the only fight(arguement) I can ever remember my precious Mama and Daddy Kees having was over a poll tax reciept. now what is that you may ask? In Mississippi in the 1940's one had to pay "poll tax" to be able to vote-why you ask, well, think about it, it was only a few dollars but it kept poor "black" people from voting! Daddy Kees was furious with Mama Kees and upset because she had lost the reciept. As she tried to find it she started to cry, and of course I cried too! When they saw me, they stopped and she put me on her lap and I thought she was crying because Daddy kees yelled, but she was crying because it was so important for her to vote! They explained to me that voting was our God given right as a citizen of the USA and it was so important! They had no automobile but they hitched a ride to vote! (they found the receipt)Here these two old people who had a an old farm house and 84 acres of land and were dirt poor, they lived off their land, yet they were proud americans who loved the USA and taught this 5 year old a lesson that I have never forgotton! And it is my prayer that you will always stand up and vote your convictions and be proud to be an american!!

Quote of the day "We're writing the gospel a chapter each day, men read what we write whether faulty or true, say what is the gospel according to you"

I love you all and I am so grateful that I have been given a few more years with much less back pain. how thankful I am to the great docs and the wonderful prayers that went up in my behalf, they tell me I am way ahead of the curve in healing from this type of surgery!

love, grandma