Today is Evan's 6th Birthday. He celebrated at school and then after school with family and friends at Peter Piper Pizza. Here is the picture I took after our shopping trip last week.
This boy loves to shop at Target.
Today is election day. Romney vs. Obama. James and I voted a couple of weeks ago. I was so sure that Romney was going to win until a few days ago and then I began to doubt. James stayed up to watch the election results but I went to bed early. I got up early and was still hopeful that Romney might have won. The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is check my phone. I had a text from Trina that said: "Are you crying.?" I knew then that Obama had won. For some reason I wasn't as upset as I thought I would be. Consider this:
"It is Election Night 2012 , and I'm sitting here at my computer listening to Governor Romney's concession speech, trying to come to grips with his defeat--our defeat. And into my mind come some interesting thoughts. The first comes with a scripture: 'Behold, I will hasten my work in its time.' (D&C 88:73). If the Lord's "work" is to "bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." (Moses 1:39),
and if that process begins by hearing about the Church and seeing its members, then the sooner and the faster the greatest number of people can see and hear about the Latter-day Saints--especially about exemplary Saints like the Romneys--the more the work is hastened. And though the Church has 55,000+ missionaries who are quietly and patiently roaming the world knocking on doors, the Lord has brought the LDS Governor and his LDS family into the very homes of millions of people around the U.S. and the world via TV, radio, and Internet for more than a year now---people who might never have received or accepted the missionaries of LDS neighbors, let alone have learned about the LDS way of life. But now they have listened, watched, and learned, and many of them will likely be more curious and receptive to the missionaries in the future. And that also goes for many of the Evangelicals, Protestants, and Catholics who locked arms with the Latter-day Saints (thanks to Glenn Beck) during this long presidential campaign. Bottom line: the Romneys lost a hard-fought political battle, but they---and the Church---won a decisive, long-awaited cultural and spiritual victory in opening the minds and hearts of millions.
Another post-election thought: "Be careful what you pray for."
Had Romney won, it is highly doubtful that he and his team would have been able to rescue the nation's wounded economy from the purposeful destruction that Obama has intentionally inflicted upon it, Obama having done so in order to "fundamentally transform" our free enterprise system into a Socialist state. Had Romney won, the only possible way to have saved the nation and its economy would have been to make deep cuts in the welfare and entitlement programs---cuts that would have been branded "murderous, discriminatory and racist" at every turn by the Liberal mainstream media. And the ever-increasing drumbeat of these accusations over the next four years would have given license to thousands---perhaps millions---of malcontents to take to the streets in "civil unrest". As such, Romney's never-ending vilification in print and in the electronis media would have soon painted him---andhis fellow Mormons---as the enemies of America, with all the resulting antagonism, stressd, and persecution of the Church, both at home and abroad. As is, over the next four years, right-wing zealots---not Christiab Conservatives---will likely become increasingly resistant, confrontational, and possibly violent in response to the creeping Socialism. Thus, "social unrest" may begin at the other end of the political spectrum, likely precipitating equally violent responses from the pro-Socialist masses.
This information regarding the election was sent to me by one of my friends, Christy Wanlass.
