The Synergistic Pen

I've been watching quietly since Monday night... just wanted to see what people would do, how people would react, what people would say.... and I heard something Tuesday night that made me stop and think...

One of the commentators on CNN was speaking about Obama right after the final projections came in... he used the analogy of Moses getting the people to the precept of the promised land and looking over to see what was there... Moses sent Joshua to see what was there and how the people could and would survive there...

Moses knew he wouldn't see that place, God had told him he couldn't go... he was part of the "corrupt" generation...he would not see the promised land... yet, he knew it would be ok...he knew Joshua would be a good leader...

I related my "MLK" experience to my 9th grade advisory class Wednesday morning as we basked in the afterglow of historic victory... I told them where I was and what I was doing the day MLK died... I told them how the experience of knowing, seeing and hearing MLK's words had made an impact on me and how that day had changed my life forever... as I was talking...it occured to me... Barack is the same age I am... he was somewhere having a life changing experience similar to mine... I wondered, how did April 4, 1968 change HIS life...? How has becoming "Barack Obama" over the last 40 years prepared this man for his role as president?

Barack is our Joshua... He has gone forth and inspected the land of the "enemy" and he has come back with a report and a plan... and as he has told us, we will have to sacrifice for the things we want and need and deserve... it won't be easy... but we can do it...

I've had people, of all racial persuasions tell me this week, how inspired they now are to do more, to want more, to work harder to become more... there really are no more barriers, are there? I've known this for a while...I just didn't want to believe it...I didn't want to step out and do the things that I KNOW I am met to do...

there are no more excuses for me... this is a new day...

We are the Joshua Generation... and we can do this...