I woke this morning thinking that it’s a great privilege to live in a country where one can vote, male and female. There are still dictatorships in the world and places where women cannot vote.

Imagine, that not so very long ago women could not vote in the US! I got to wondering if women could vote when my mother was born so I looked it up — nope! She was born in 1919, and my father in 1917. Neither are living now. The 19th Amendment passed in 1920.

Neither one of them ever talked about it with me. They were too young to realize how historic it was for women to get the vote or the difficulties that women went through in order to have their voices heard. And I suppose it was just normal to them, growing up with it. I wish I could ask them what they heard around them, if they remembered. I know my grandmother always voted, once she could.

I expect that not only is it a historic election, but there will be a historically large turn out. We are told that 38% have already early voted (I was one of them, as was my older daughter.) The line wasn’t too bad here at our polling place early this morning, according to one source I talked with. He was number 28 in line about a half hour before it opened. There were about 15 more behind him.

Get out and vote if you are an American citizen. Let your voice be heard. Then, let’s be part of the new administration, no matter who wins. Let this election bring healing to the divisiveness we’ve felt and seen for so long. Pray that we find the solutions to the serious problems facing us and the world. Vow to be part of the solution, not the problem.

Karin

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