Wife and I looked at this slideshow a few minutes ago and tears started rolling down our eyes. Through the hopeful and tearful eyes of these men and women, we glimpsed history. Our own spontaneous tears seems to be how our lives - a couple from India - has been deeply touched by the people of United States, by this extraordinary political groundswell.
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Gene Robinsons opening prayer at the inauguration festivities (go to Abels place to hear about the drama):
O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will...
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Amen, indeed.
Transcript below the fold
Welcome to Washington! The fun is about to begin, but first, please join me in pausing for a moment, to ask God’s blessing upon our nation and our next president.
O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will
Bless us with tears - for a world…
Fairly often, when someone comes to our farm to make a purchase or do a job, the implicit assumption is that they should talk to Eric. The first time I remember seeing this was when we were farm shopping back a decade ago - we met our first realtor and visited our first farm, and the realtor led…
From my point of view, it seemed funny. They take it seriously.
But i understand, people have different attitude over certain events.