Breakfast with Mama

As Mama and I had a French breakfast this morning with bacon, poached eggs in unsalted butter and croissants with grape jelly made by Rachel, my daughter in law, with, grapes from her father’s vineyard and cafe au lait for me, of course English breakfast tea for her, we discussed the richness of our lives. She related all the wonderful experiences God brought into her life in spite of the fact that as a teenager she thought everyone had a boyfiend except her. I wish the whole family could have been here to hear her tell about it. But one thing she did say this morning that I feel everyone of you should hear.

She listens to lots of political television and reads voracioiusly about all the candidates in this election. Her thoughts were that all of the candidates were the kind of people you would love to have as neighbors. They are all caring, considerate and the kind of people who are willing to lay down their lives for the good of this country. All of them would do the right thing for us as they saw it.

She also stated how proud she was of her children and grandchildren who took a stand and made it a priority to take advantage of our privilege to vote even the ones who did not necessarily agree with her political viewpoint.

She said also that the reason she makes her choices is that she uses God’s Word as a plumbline for the issues and measures the candidates previous choices by that standard.