I have lived under twelve Presidents.  An even dozen.  Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnston, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

I have lived through the media, Republicans, Democrats and the public, ranting and raving about how terrible the President was.  All of them.  And yet, each one has brought us something that has lasted and been good.  I am personally grateful for the G.I. Bill.  Thousands and thousands of returning GIs (from WW2 especially) were able to go to college, get degrees, and make more money and pay higher taxes for the rest of their lives.  It was a program that was paid back dozens of times over in increased taxes.  The more you make, the more you are taxed.  Everyone won with that one.  Ken did--he taught on a college campus for 28 years because of the G.I. Bill.

The interstate highways.  Eisenhower saw the wonderful roads in Germany and put into action a program to connect our nation.  If you didn't live in the forties, you don't know how horrible it was to go somewhere on two lane (or one lane) dirt roads.  Highway sixty-six was about all we had.  It took days to get anywhere.  I wrote to you about my dad patching tires over and over as we tried to make the trip to my grandmother's house.  Now we take interstate roads for granted.

As we swing from the Democrats to the Republicans (nobody seems to like what they have had--for almost any four years of a presidency--and we are constantly changing back  and forth), we sometimes forget that the Bible says to pray for our leaders.  Whoever they are.  This is a wonderful, blessed country.  It has been interesting to watch history unfold in my life.

Paul said:  (and they were under a Roman dictatorship) Romans 13: 1 "Let every soul be subject to the higher powers.  For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained by God."

God determines the future.  His plan is in motion.  He has told us the final outcome--not what is going on between now and then.  Politics just determine who we get to vote for and gripe about.