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America will be a different place one week from today. We will have elected our first woman as President in Hillary Clinton or we will have elected Donald Trump. The race is tightening and people are on edge. One thing we can agree with is that we are all ready for this to be done with. My country is a very divided place at the moment. Whoever is elected will have to unify us somehow, although I don’t see it happening soon. After we vote, what then, who will we be? What will our destiny hold? Many other questions shall be asked too.

It will be interesting to see what happens next Tuesday night as our votes are being counted and the electoral college map gets filled out in blue for Democrats and red for Republicans (thanks to the late Tim Russert of NBC News for that color coding idea a few years ago). In the USA it takes 27o electoral votes to win the Presidency. The popular vote doesn’t always decide the outcome so there is another point of discussion.

Yesterday I voted and I feel good about my ballot. You probably can guess how I voted though.

The next six days will be tense. We shall see how it all shakes out.

If our fear is stronger than our hope then our nation will never be great…it will just be scared and afraid and very alone. The world is changing, people are evolving. America is a better place when EVERYONE has a seat at the table and they are secure in the fact that they matter. The future is a place where individuals of all creeds, color, orientation and heritage will have a responsibility in moving the country forward, not back. As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

Are we going to be America the great and beautiful or something else? Fear not is mentioned in scripture. Maybe that is a lesson we should all heed.

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