The Road You Leave Behind.....

I have over the course of about the last two years been searching for something. I have been completely unable to pinpoint this constant yearning for whatever it has been. It has both perplexed and frustrated me as well as confused the hell out of me. But yesterday I found the answer to what I have been missing, or looking for, pondering over, yearning for. Yeah yearning for is the best description available.
Yesterday I attended the funeral of a close family friend. It was in the rural town of my youth. It is where I was reared. Where I made all the mistakes, all the triumphs, all the glory and honor that have made me the man I am today. The funeral was unlike any other I have ever witnessed. No one took a head count, but it bordered on 600 people. 600 people who all in one way or another had been touch by this wonderful woman whom we lay to rest. This wonderful former elementary teacher whom we lay to rest and whom angels lifted up, who had touched the lives of so many in the crowd as well as those in the crowd whose lives her husband have touched. They have both been special people in my life. And as I walked along the roads I had walked so many times so many years ago, a unique feeling of familiarity engulfed me. As the casket was unloaded and carried into the church and as the family followed their loved one in, a more perfect day I can’t remember seeing.
It was a day like many from my youth. The sun was bright, the air was crisp, with a gentle breeze, and the hymns of the birds floating through the air as Amazing Grace began inside the church and as that hymn was sung, I looked around at the faces of all those that were standing outside and those sitting in the folded chairs outside, because the church would only hold 200 people, and the clarity of the last two years found me in an unexpected place at an unexpected time, and I guess in a way it is fitting that it was in the place where I began that my new beginning would find me. And it has.
What found me was providence. As I looked around at those many people, was that they are what has made this country what it is today. Good, God fearing people, who comprise, WE THE PEOPLE. WE THE PEOPLE, can fix the problems we have and return this Country to where it belongs in the world.
The problem with this is that many people will say oh we can't do that. Well WE can! The citizens of this country can do anything. And if we can Unite on Principle, we can right the wrongs. So let's get together. Lets stand together and UNITE!!!! I fall to my knees and pray for that nightly.