Comments on: My country, my lifetime http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/ Erika Carney Haub's musings on life and God from South Central, L.A. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Ted M. Gossard http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/comment-page-1/#comment-407654 Ted M. Gossard Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:14:38 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/#comment-407654 Erika, Thanks for sharing this. Good words for me, and important reminder that there's just no way I can really enter into what our African-American neighbors are experiencing now. I know that in my head, yet try somehow to imagine myself in their shoes. But that's really impossible. So I take it we're to rejoice with them, and see and pray for the apparent good this can bring for our nation. Erika,
Thanks for sharing this. Good words for me, and important reminder that there’s just no way I can really enter into what our African-American neighbors are experiencing now. I know that in my head, yet try somehow to imagine myself in their shoes. But that’s really impossible.

So I take it we’re to rejoice with them, and see and pray for the apparent good this can bring for our nation.

]]> By: Jamie Arpin-Ricci http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/comment-page-1/#comment-407087 Jamie Arpin-Ricci Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:17:49 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/#comment-407087 Hey Erika, The shift of excitement is similar here in Canada too. In our neighbourhood, largely First Nations & African/Caribbean, there is a tangible excitement (though clearly not as strong as it is in the US), while outside there is still excitement, but it is far less personal. Great post! Peace, Jamie Hey Erika,

The shift of excitement is similar here in Canada too. In our neighbourhood, largely First Nations & African/Caribbean, there is a tangible excitement (though clearly not as strong as it is in the US), while outside there is still excitement, but it is far less personal. Great post!

Peace,
Jamie

]]> By: erika http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/comment-page-1/#comment-406509 erika Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:08:01 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/#comment-406509 David, I really appreciate how you worded that. Thank you. David, I really appreciate how you worded that. Thank you.

]]> By: sg http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/comment-page-1/#comment-406470 sg Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:51:48 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/#comment-406470 My friend Matt just shared this experience via twitter, and I just had to share it too ;) ... There is an old Asian man on my bus carefully handing out origami cranes made from The Stranger, saying only "Obama." God bless America. My friend Matt just shared this experience via twitter, and I just had to share it too ;) …

There is an old Asian man on my bus carefully handing out origami
cranes made from The Stranger, saying only “Obama.” God bless America.

]]> By: david http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/comment-page-1/#comment-406468 david Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:45:07 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/my-country-my-lifetime/01/#comment-406468 "I watched an old black woman laughing. Crying. Laughing and crying and saying joyfully “I’m glad I lived long enough to see this! Oh God! I’m glad I lived long enough to see this!” I've gotten so tired of people groaning at what they perceive as the Messiah-hood of this presidency. The thing is, not he himself, but the events that have lead to this moment, their timing and their weight, and the prophetic calling that has preceded this day, do mean a certain kind of salvation for many citizens of America. If we forget this we become very cold inside. Awesome post. “I watched an old black woman laughing. Crying. Laughing and crying and saying joyfully “I’m glad I lived long enough to see this! Oh God! I’m glad I lived long enough to see this!”

I’ve gotten so tired of people groaning at what they perceive as the Messiah-hood of this presidency.

The thing is, not he himself, but the events that have lead to this moment, their timing and their weight, and the prophetic calling that has preceded this day, do mean a certain kind of salvation for many citizens of America. If we forget this we become very cold inside.

Awesome post.

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