The Only Thing Constant Is Change

Dedicated to the memory of Sean Bell and Michael Donald...Respect... ...VOTE...Fight, Fight the Power, You've GOTTA Fight the Powers That Be! (Thanks, Isley Brothers and Public Enemy)

With Barack Obama as President of the United States, America voted for change. I think about when I knew I was changed and changing. Long after I was "saved", I actually had to get saved, rescued, matter of life or death, yes, saved. I was carried out in a rip tide on August 17, 2005. It was a day that changed my life. I'd already accepted that this was my certain death and I told God I was not afraid but I asked him to please let my earthly body be recovered so that my mother would have something to say good-bye to. I also asked God to remember my mother had already lost my brother in a car accident in 1988. I had this entire conversation with God in under a second as I turned myself parallel and swam at an even pace. Each time I thought I was making headway, back out I was carried. The voice of God spoke loudly enough for me to know it certainly was no whisper. He said, "I've got you." I knew then I was forever changed. He instructed me to raise my hands and sure enough the life guard was on his way because he'd seen me get swept up. How was I changed? I knew I had more in my life to do, see and feel. Experience other than what was familiar and try anything I wanted to try without placing boundaries on what I would allow myself to imagine. I am in the midst of watching how we adapt to what we have to do as a nation, we have to change. We have to become cohesive and no longer divisive. If our nation loses, we all lose. If the automobile industry goes bust, what happens to the workers whose very lives depend on that industry? America invented the car, how did the CEO, CFO, COO and all the others allow it to get to this point? Time for change...Globally, we must elect to live as green as possible so that our childrens' grandchildren will have a viable planet. Change begins with me. Personal change, professional change, positive change...