Peaceful transition

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This is our nation’s heritage and the beauty of a representative republic, that every four year we go through the electoral process again, and when the power changes hands, it does so amidst solemnity and pageantry.

If it’s only for today, it looks and sounds like Americans are one nation under God. Saddleback’s Pastor Rick Warren prayed in the invocation for “a new birth of clarity….and civility” among people of goodwill. Now we need to get to the point of having goodwill, though it seems to have suddenly burst out all over the place overnight. If we were capable of it this quickly, we were capable of it before.

But today is the first day of the rest of our nation’s life, which is only one cliche that suddenly comes to mind.

The other is that ‘You never have a second chance to make a first impression.’ Actually, in the case of a newly elected president, having now been sworn in and beginning the infamous Day One, he does.

Pray for his wisdom.