Family and friends:

I assume most of you will reach this blog entry tomorrow morning – on Election Day -- a defining day in this country’s history no doubt.   What an election year!  It’s been a long and at times frustrating experience for a lot of us.  I know it has been for me.  But in a few hours, the voting will be over, everything will have been said and done, and all our praying for our candidate of choice to win will cease.  It is at that juncture that I think a new set of prayers must begin.  It is then I think that America will need our prayers the most.  Because either way, no matter the winning party, there will be undoubtedly many citizens disappointed, dissatisfied, and unhappy at the outcome of this election, and so we must start off by praying for a peaceful transition into the new administration, republican or democrat.  Just the same, win or lose, we must all pray for the new group of leaders who will be shaping our government; for God to give them guidance and wisdom to make the right decisions, as the responsibilities and tasks before them are tremendous due to the challenges facing our nation.  Come Tuesday night, let’s put our loyalty to the Lord before anything else.  Let our first new prayer be for this country’s next President to be ready to stand before God and see the way to a moral and righteous living; a living that fits our conscience; a living that we can all be proud of.   God help us all be above our politics.

Have a peaceful election day.
Connie.