Correction:

My dear friend Cecelia brought this point up to me;

when I stated I've found the ones really doing all the complaining are the ones who put more effort into money and material things to satisfy thier happiness and quality of life and not focusing on the spiritual aspects of living for today and enjoying what God has already blessed them with.

She took it as I was saying every hard working american and christian are complainers...which isnt what I meant at all! My thoughts were driven toward all the whiners I see on CNN all day long... It is on at my work. All Day. Every DAY. 

So my apologies to those I have offended who run thier own businesses, ministries and whatnot and also to the rest of us trying to hold their own.

Taking the high road.

Well Obama is president. Not my personal voting choice, but I must say it didnt come as much of a surprise to me.  I dont particularly care that he is the first black president. Atleast he is a human. And all this talk about living in a socialist nation is kind of irritating me too. I used to live in a socialist nation. When I lived in France I made sure I payed attention to the government issues and things and just how miserable the people were because everyone always made a big hoo-ha over it. 

Miserable? I beg to differ. I realize the issues of socialism and how they are not particularly ideal and dont really agree with it totally. However, as for quality of life, I discovered while living in France, they are just as happy as clams. They realize they cant do much about the whole thing, so they just have learned to enjoy life and roll with the punches. 

And since we as "the people" cant do much about anything regarding politics and government, I mean really, what are we able to do about it... write him a letter? Protest on the steps of washington?  (alot of good that does) well...I say, since we are in for the long haul, lets not let our quality of life go down. We can enjoy ourselves and our familys just as much as when Bush was in office. Or Clinton.  I've found the ones really doing all the complaining are the ones who put more effort into money and material things to satisfy thier happiness and quality of life and not focusing on the spiritual aspects of living for today and enjoying what God has already blessed them with. When you realize just how much you are blessed, then you can really start to see what quality of life really means. Lysa Terkeurst put it very plainly:

Jesus never called us to the comfortable life. He called us follow him through whatever life hands us. 

Jesus never waited for the circumstances of the times to line up in his favor. He called us to follow him and be light in the darkness.

Jesus never bad mouthed the leaders of the day or demanded they change their policies. He called us to follow him and live out the truth through our right choices.

America has had its ups and down, and yet we as a people still live.  As long as we live good honest lives, within the laws and rules of our country and our God, then we have more freedom than protesting and resisting all the way.  

I honestly do hope however, that with this new administration some good things may come of it.