Another 4 years!

Well, there we have it. Obama is our president again.
I expected it. I told myself over and over that Obama would continue to be our  president but.... when it happened I couldn't help but weep.
It wasn't because I wanted Romney to be our president so badly.
No, it was because I wanted Obama to NOT be our president so badly.
Things about his administration scare me. They scare me for myself and my loved ones but,  they mainly scare me for my children. Thoughts of Obamacare raced through my head at the speed of a freight train and I couldn't help but think "what are we going to do?"

We keep our kids pretty up to speed on all things political and the like. They are fascinated with the entire voting process and the elections themselves so, we let them stay up to watch the news.
It was a lot of fun to watch them cheer and whoop and holler when the electoral votes  went up in our favor.
By the time the presidency was called tho, only Gabe was awake to see it...

And it was him (Gabe) who had to remind me why I shouldn't worry.
Gabe came to me in my room where I had retreated to sob like baby  and said "Mom, God let Obama win. And, maybe he let Obama win because Romney would have been worse."  It is hard to imagine  to be sure but, we don't know. Only the Lord does. And, regardless of who our president is.. our future is in the Lord NOT some man.

NOTHING is going to happen to America that the Lord doesn't allow to happen! Maybe Gabe is right, maybe Romney would have been worse or maybe, just maybe Obama is what we deserve.

I do not know what the next four years holds. But, what I do know is this is my temporary home and that  God knew before I voted who would win the race.
Now, I will pray. For our nation, my family and our future.

These verses have been going through my head since I woke up this morning...

Matthew 6

²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

²⁷ Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

²⁸ And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

²⁹ And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

³⁰ Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

³¹ Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

³² (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

³⁴ Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Thank you Lord for your Word and the comfort it brings!