I hope you all have a

Happy Thanksgiving! I will be spending the day in Eagan with my parents and my mom's brother and his wife and whomever of my three cousins will be there. I just finished a bible study this past Monday at one of the churches I attend here in Albert Lea. It was definitely an awesome opportunity to take stock of my relationship with Christ and set some goals for the future as I continue to walk with Christ. Hopefully I'll post more about that study later, but until then, I'm praying that you all have reasons to be grateful this year.

A moment for the history books

Many of you probably watched the election returns come in last night. I still don't understand how it is a network can call a state for a candidate when no results have even been reported is beyond me. How do those exit polls work anyway?

Some people may say that John McCain lost last night, but this morning on The View, I watched 5 ladies (2 African-American, 3 Caucasian and only 1 of them is conservative) talk about Barack Obama winning the election last night. Barbara Walters immediately checked in with Elisabeth Hasselbeck to see how she was doing. Hasselbeck said she watched Barack Obama's speech with her daughter. Hasselbeck explained that Barack Obama is the next president of the US. Her daughter then asked who lost. Hasselbeck told her daugher that nobody lost the election this year. Everybody won.

Whether we agree with Obama or not, we all know that 45 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" Speech. Last night, any limits that African Americans had on their dreams were dropped from the table. As the ladies on The View said this morning, and as Martin Luther King Jr. said 45 years ago, I believe America did make a judgment based on the content of someone's character and not on the color of their skin.

Now if only we could spread those rights to Native Americans, such as those living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.