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the election is over, the polls in VA just closed… now it is time to unite around the winner (it is 7:00 pm EST on the 4th as I write this)… what we should do is congratulate the winner and unite behind the president-elect… we need to put the harsh words behind us, both slogans are right: “yes we can” “put country first.” So now that this long election is over, let us remember that we are all Americans and let us look forward and support the new president…

whoever you vote for, GO VOTE!

This quote is from an article in The Economist magazine… “Older evangelicals may care about issues like abortion and gay marriage. But young evangelicals list poverty, the environment and Darfur as their top concerns.” I don’t know what their source is, but in my connection with what Webber called ‘younger evangelicals’, this is an accurate assessment. Many people, for a long time, have decided on abortion, and moral issues like it, it does seems that younger followers of Jesus in America are looking at different issues. I wonder if the Republican top-dogs are out of touch with the future of their previous base: the evangelical vote?

Whichever man gets the nod from the voters on Tuesday and is then proclaimed President-elect deserves one thing without question from all followers of Jesus… prayer.

some amazing weather here in Virginia motivated me to get busy on a long overdue yard cleanup, the now brown grass and weeds were a mess…

before

during

after

thanks Josh for coming over and helping out…

we planted some grass in spots too; I’m gonna put down fertilizer and hope next spring that things will green up nicer… hopeful for the renewal of spring… ever hopeful…

we must cultivate that which we hope to grow… even our souls…

regulars readers and users of kingdom travelin’ will notice that I have rearranged some links and added two – welcome Josh and Abby’s blog and the Coppages’ website!

For those of us who are in, or have been to, or have heard the rest of us talk about Hungary, and the fancy McDonald’s at Nyugati train station, and so forth and so on… McD is celebrating a big anniversary in Hungary (Budapest actually, I’m sure) with some menu changes. Now, McD has a specialty sandwich in every country (the design of which is to matche the local taste in some way, but this is ridiculous… click here to see and read about a more Hungarian menu.

there are people who have knowledge

and then there are people who know how to apply that knowledge