"Boating Day"

For those of you that don’t know, today is “Boating Day”! At least that’s what our 3 year old granddaughter thought we were saying as we buckled her in her car seat and headed to our local precinct to “VOTE”. I can certainly see how she thought we were headed out for a beautiful day of boating, since that’s what she understood we were saying. She soon realized that “boating” must mean something else.

She stayed Velcro’d to me as we entered the nearby Jr. High School to cast our votes in the Primary. She was polite and smiled at the polling officials as they checked in Grandpa and me to receive our instructions as to our next station and be directed to our assigned booth to cast our ballots. I was glad she was being so nice and quiet since this whole atmosphere of voting (“boating”) was a new experience for her. The polling officials tried to engage her in conversation and give her a stamp on her hand, but refused politely (she was having none of that).

She held my hand softly as I read the names and made my choices. The ballot was long and it took a little longer than usual to make it through 5 pages of names. She let go of my hand but stayed close-by. I was thinking as we left the precinct, how good it was to expose a little one so young to our right as citizens of these precious United States of America what it means to vote and elect those people that we most trust and feel in our hearts will run our government in accordance with God’s will. If we don’t vote and protect our right as a Citizen of these United States of America we have plenty of examples on the news each evening of countries that have surrendered those rights, or have never fought to gain them. Something to think about, then PRAY about.