She moves in mysterious ways...

In my heart of hearts, I know that God is always listening to me, my thoughts, my heart, and my prayers. But at some times, for whatever reason, I feel like She isn't. A week ago I was reminded that God is always listening, always hears our prayers. God may not answer our prayers in the way or time frame that we want, but is always, always listening. It did give me hope in a situation that I had all but given up on. I had given up on because it hadn't happend in the time frame or way that I wanted it to happen. But we know what happens when we tell God our plans. All of this reminds me of a quote of Mother Teresa, "I don't pray for success, I ask for faithfulness".

We have so far to go...

We have come so far as a nation, but yet we have so far to go. This past week an African-American man was elected to the be the leader of a country that at one time considered African-Americans 3/5 of a person. They were property of the white people and had almost no rights. This same nation once told African-American people that they couldn't drink from the same water fountain, sit on the same seats of the city bus, go to the same schools as white people. This wasn't all back in the 1800s this was just 40 years ago in "The Land of FREEDOM". Most of this was supported by some religious communities' interpretation of the Bible. Thank God that they saw there error and realized their mistake. It was a terrible mark against a country that many deem to be "The Greatest in the World" and "The Land of Opportunity" and since that time we have made large gains in correcting the prejudices and injustices against African-American people. And last week it took another large step when Barack Obama was elected President. As I said before we have come so far, yet we still have so far to go.

And on a holiday in which we celebrate and thank those veterans who have fought and died for our Freedom, this issue is never more important because the freedom of many people in this country is being denied.

This same type of prejudice and discrimination has happened several more times in history. The denying of women's right to vote and the denying of interracial couples to marry among other. And now it is being done again to the gay community and the fight for marriage equality. With the passage of Prop 8 in California, the marriage equality fight took a giant leap backwards. I am going to get on my soapbox and talk to the African-American people of this nation. I do this because they voted overwhelmingly to approve Prop 8. How soon they forget that just a few short years ago they were the oppressed people and now they have become the opressors. I hope that they would look back at history and realize that it wasn't long ago that they were considered second class citizens and now they are helping to do the same to the Gay community.

I hope and pray that some day this too will pass and we will look back on it like we did our discrimination of African-Americans and women and realize that is was wrong.

I finish with a Special Comment by Keith Olbermann of MSNBC on this issue: