the crescendo

Hi friends.  I’m definitely back to blogging here now!  I’ve got another blog for church stuff and a church website that I’ll be keeping up – but this will be my real blog.

So, I’ll start off with the political note I didn’t want to post on the church blog

During the debates tonight Obama mentioned that he does not want a free trade agreement with Columbia because union leaders are regularly assassinated with no prosecution.  Basically, the government there aids the murder of those who fight for the needs of workers.  And, essentially you can boil that down to enforced slavery.  This is why I don’t drink Coke products.  They are heavily involved in this practice in Columbia.

I’m not going to advocate for one candidate over another on my blog.  That’s not what this blog is meant to be about.  I just want to say, in the vein of the “crescendo,” I saw God’s grace in Obama mentioning that.  Even as our economy is crashing, here is one man who dared on national television to say that he will not sacrifice the lives of those who fight for workers in Columbia in the name of boosting our own economy.

Hearing a top American politician acknowledge the plight of the marginalized in the two-thirds world give me the courage to boycot Coke another day and hope that a difference can be made!