Friday, August 28, 2020

Fireworks Over the White House Last Night

 


Last night, President Trump accepted the nomination for President of the United States by the Republican National Committee. While the whole convention was a beautiful and powerful display of patriotism and support of our military, the icing on the cake was the fireworks display after the President's acceptance speech outside the White House. How they were able to spell out Trump in fireworks is beyond me. It lasted a split second and you almost didn't believe it happened...here and gone. 





But not gone, the show of love and support for our country by each speaker throughout the week, not gone their support for our citizens who yearn for freedom, peace and safety. I was so proud of every speaker featured for they spoke of their love for America and desire to see each person flourish and see their dreams fulfilled...because their dreams had been fulfilled...from Alice Johnson, who spoke of her journey from drugs to prison to pardon by Trump to Jon Ponder, a former inmate who now supports other inmates as they transition back into society, to the first black attorney general of Kentucky Daniel Cameron who made sure the Democrats knew the Black people can make up their own minds, to Sister Dede Byrne who spoke of Trump's unflagging support of the unborn to Madison Cawthorn, the young man in a wheel chair now running for Congress in North Carolina...he stood up from his wheel chair with the aid of arm supports...to stand up for America. Wow, it was so moving to see such great Americans be the champion of Trump because he is the champion of Americans. 





Many veterans and police officials were asked to speak at the Convention as well as many women. All were well spoken, and had their own story to tell...so you didn't feel like you were listening to hackneyed politicians but rather friends, family and neighbors who had something special to share.

We now start the path to Election Day. We need peace in the land. We need love and acceptance. We need hope and a future worth looking forward to. I read this verse the other day that reminded me of the good news...that we are in good hands. 

"And the government shall be upon his shoulders. And he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end." Isaiah 9:6

Sunday, August 2, 2020

America says GoodBye to a Great American





Herman Caine died this week from complications due to Corona Virus. My husband and I admired him and supported him in his run for the Presidency in 2012. Mitt Romney won the nomination and lost the Presidency. Maybe it should have been Herman all along. Whatever the case, he was a great man with a beautiful always present smile. He was kind, funny, intuitive and natural. He was also an associate pastor for many years. He knew and loved Jesus which must have been a large part of that smile. He also loved America and the American dream which he personified. He will be missed for his calming influence, positive attitude and ability to make any place he was seem like the place you wanted to be. Did I know him? No. 
It just felt like I did.


Here is a great excerpt of an interview Herman did with writer Byron York. It is the perfect picture of 
Herman Caine, 
beloved American.


"CAIN DEEPLY BELIEVED THAT AMERICA NEEDED someone who would bring a businessman's perspective to the White House. "I've actually run stuff," he told me. "I've actually fixed stuff. I've actually solved stuff." As evidence, he cited his turnaround of Godfather's, which was losing money when Cain took over in 1986. He would do the same thing, he said, with the United States, still suffering from the Great Recession in 2012.
"I spent the first 60 days of my time at Godfather's listening, to figure out what we needed to do," Cain said, leaning back at his desk. "It wasn't complicated: get back to basics."
"Number one, we had too many products on the menu," he explained. "We had gotten away from our core product. We had too many crusts.  We had the original Godfather's pizza crust, we had the original Godfather's pizza, and then we had three imitations that looked like Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Little Caesar's. I got rid of the three imitations, and we got back to focus on the one we were good at. Number two, we simplified the operations, because if you simplify the operations, you make it possible for the people in the restaurant to execute exceptionally well every day. When you've got too much stuff, they can't execute. Number three, we instilled in the company that we could, in fact, win again."
The same approach, he said, would work to shrink and simplify the workings of the U.S. government. "So in your view," I asked him, "America has too many crusts?" "Yes!" Cain exclaimed, breaking into a long laugh. "America has too many crusts! And we've got to simplify things, clarify things so that we can achieve real progress. You get it!"