Monday, January 19, 2009

Inauguration Thoughts!!

No matter what you believe or whom you have voted for a dream for many have been realized. The hope that is occurring with the inauguration of the first Malotto Man to ever lead our country is beyond the hope of the crisis that needs solving, the wall street greed or the wars that are happening. To me the hope is that just as Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Bill Wilson or others who have carried torches which burned bright with what is good (even beyond their humanness) so too does this event.

It is a visual testiment to the ability for God to empower us even as we do wrong things. Of taking what was evil and transforming it into a living statement of what can be. Slavery is wrong. Hate is wrong. Judging on creed and beliefs is wrong but what is right is seeing people from all races, creeds, beliefs, abilities, disabilities come together meld as one and celebrate what we can be what we can strive to be.

If we can lead through challenging others to goodness - Looking back that is what the 60's were about. It is what we can come full circle to be. We can lose entitlement and gain respect through example. I feel empowered today - I feel as if those who have worked so hard to have all people heard are being vindicated. May all of you enjoy this and may it bring a beacon of hope to the world's problems a jumping off into the goodness we can be.