A call for unity

I didn't get a chance to write about it last week, but at the Arlington St. Church they played "American the Beautiful" on the bells before the service began, and we sang a similar song (the name of which escapes me) that was very moving, especially since this was before the election.

There was naturally a mood of celebration today, but the point of the sermon delivered by today's speaker Dan Kane was that this isn't the end of this, oh no. "Only we can save ourselves, Obama can just point us in the right direction" was the main gist of it, and he kept going back to that. He also stressed that 46% of America didn't vote for Obama, and if we really want this change to stick we have to reach out to them and resist the urge to inflict the pain and fear that we (meaning Democrats and Political Progressives, most UUs, in other words) have felt for the past 8 years on them in a sort of "revenge".

I thought it was a very moving sermon, and I think he's exactly right. ( Wherein I try to emulate Dan Kane and wax political )

And now that I've said that I need to get something to eat, seeing as how my stomach is making more noise than the traffic on Tremont St. after a Celtics win.

In other news...

Now that our cable box is working properly again and giving us more than 24 channels (and yes I realize the irony that at home we don't even get that many on an antenna) I'm starting to remember why Jean Luc Picard is one of my role models. Most people seem to agree that Picard is an INTJ, so that might be part of why I gravitated towards him. That and Patrick Stewart is just awesome. ♥

That is all. Now I have to read part of a Civil War book for tomorrow.