a long time coming

This story has been sittin on me since before the election back in November. I finally decided that I would write it down.

My children's minister Penny (the one on the left in the picture) was having a conversation with her adult daughter Sanya sometime before the election, and the issue of who each of them was going to vote for came up. Sanya, was appalled when she found out that her mom was not going to vote for Obama. The conversation took a rather humorous turn when Sanya finally expressed her frustration by saying..." Mom, I know what it is...you are not voting for Obama because he is black."

Now the humor in that is... Penny's husband, Ken (Sanya's dad) is African American. Can you imagine?... Penny would marry an African American man, have three children with him and yet her own daughter says that she's not voting for Obama because he's black.

Penny could not hardly contain the laughter when she was telling me that story. I appreciate her letting me share it.
I will be glad for the day when we can have eyes that will see beyond the color of skin and see the real issue...the spiritual issue. It doens't really matter if a person is black, white or any other color what is truly important is does that person know Jesus.

That's my prayer that we have spiritual eyes, to see the people around us as Jesus sees them... and when that happens...we'll let's just say it will have been a long time comin'.