Will Obama add the conscience to his cabinet ?
Tonight I spoke to two young women who lifted my spirits and provide me with goose bumps. It wasn’t necessarily their words that did it, but more their energy.
They were both vibrant and full of life. One got up at 5:30 am New York time to vote and the other was just beaming with joy and purpose. My connection to these women is very special. One is my mother and the other is my mother-in law. Conscience spoke through both of them tonight. My mother, who has been ill, for the better part of 2 years now, found a sense of purpose in getting up and out to the polling place by 5:30 this morning. My mother-law and I spoke about the fact that through it all, the mixed marriage of her daughter (Gail) and myself has lasted the test of time. Conscience speaks through many forms. Tonight it spoke through the election. There is hope in the land again, not for Obama as a savior, but hopefully as a leader who will decide to Ask the conscience more than his advisors. Imagine what could happen if our leaderships around the world starting Asking the conscience. What sort of decisions would be made? How many wars would not happen?
In speaking to my Mom I could feel her joy of being alive to see something, that as a young child and adult, she had to think would never happen, a man of clear mixed racial blood, being elected president of the United States. Add to that, my mother-in law in her 80’s or Irish decent, and born in Iowa on a farm, having lived through her daughter marrying a very black man, having a grandson of mixed race and now president of mixed race. She was excited and happy. It became very clear to me that staying young has a lot to do with listening to conscience. When you listen to conscience you learn, grow and develop. I could feel and hear that tonight in the voices of two very young women.
Asking the conscience is really an invitation to change. Let’s hope our President-Elect in his first order of business adds the conscience to his cabinet.
Tags: Ask The Conscience, Election '08, Obama, President Elect