Election Day - November 4, 2008

November 4, 2008

My Dear Sweet Robert, 

Today is Election Day for our country’s President. This is a day, which I know you were looking forward to. I recall how concerned you were for the direction our country seemed headed. If you were still with us, that concern would be magnified many times from what you felt last year. So much has gone on in our country and in the world. 

It seems like a lifetime ago, remembering when you and I sat around watching Fox News programs , with you rooting for Rudy Guiliani and me rooting for Mitt Romney, to be the Republican candidate. Well, neither of our guys made it, but I have come to be pretty comfortable with our party’s team of John McCain and Sarah Palin. I believe you would have, too. I can only imagine the many conversations we would have had, regarding the opportunity for our country to elect the first woman Vice-President or the first African-American President. It would have filled many, many evenings for us, speculating on the outcome. 

I got up very early this morning to vote when the polls opened. I was still # 102 in line to cast my ballot. I stood in line for an hour for the privilege of casting my vote (or should I say “our vote”) because I surely felt as if I were casting your vote also. I missed standing in the line with you. No one else could see, but my eyes welled up with tears a couple of times with remembrances of our past voting times. You would always give me a wonderful neck message as we waited our turn to vote. I felt so lonely standing by myself, with husbands and wives standing and chatting all around me. 

As I drove away from the polling place, I felt a deep sadness. But, then I prayed for my sadness to go away and in a very short time I found a smile replacing my sadness as I thought of you in Heaven with the King of Kings. There is no need for elections where you reside! That matter has already been settled, once and for all! Your King is the King above all Kings.

Another important matter has been settled tonight. Our new President will be Barack Obama, our country’s first African American President. While he was not the candidate of my choice, now that he has been duly elected, he is my President and I will support him and will most certainly pray for him. I am quite sure, you would have done the same.

Please Know That You Were Always Loved, And Will Never Be Forgotten, 

Kim 
Phil 4:13