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| I used to teach music and fall was the prep/rehearsal time for the Christmas (politically correct- "Winter") Concert.
Let me tell you, we started singing Jingle Bells and jingled all the way and back again from September to December.
I was so SICK of any Christmas music by Thanksgiving! Right when everyone else was just getting in the Christmas mood, I was ready to be done with it. Jeff would want all the pretty cheesy Christmas music on, and I just wanted silence. He used to call me the Grinch.
And rightly so.
Now that I am not teaching, I don't rush Christmas, but I am ready for it by Thanksgiving.
I think that is why I didn't pay attention to the debate at Belmont on Tuesday. I've been jingling for a long time and I'm kind of done with it now.
I know who I am voting for. For me personally, it all comes down one issue, and I know where I am standing. The debates are particularly helpful to those who aren't sure yet.
Me?
I'm ready to do my thing.
I'm ready to cast my vote, and continue to pray for our president daily...lifting his name up in prayer with kids.
And no matter who is president, we Christians have the responsibility to pray for our leaders.
So this is the first thing we pray for...
"Dear Jesus, thank you for our president, George Bush and the leaders of our country. Thank you for the Pastor Lloyd and the leaders of our church. Help them all to make good choices. Give them passion, purity, protection and peace."
And then we continue to pray for other things including our friends and family.
So next month - particularly the end- will be a good one, b/c we will put aside our political differences, and come together again as a united country.
And it will bring the beginning of the holidays.
Thanksgiving, where we remember all the blessings we have, and the wonderful country we live in.
And of course, it will bring about the Christmas mood- it will bring people together and bind us together around the love of the infant that came to save us. |
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