A Thought and a Reassurance

First a reassurance. I'm sure all 4 readers of our blog were starting to worry that we had gone blog haywire again and you wouldn't hear from us for another several months. Nay, not so. I actually have several posts in the works and several more brewing in my head...I just haven't been able to get anything in a publishable form. Also, Jonathan sometimes threatens to post on the blog but thus far has not taken the initiative. 

I guess I realized that I needed to post when I started to get frustrated that none of the few blogs that I regularly check had been updated (except Brian and Sara...you guys are great about blogging). Caren don't try to feed me that line about your internet again--update your blog! Anyway, rest assured blog fans. We are still alive, well, and blogging. 

And now a thought. We have a joke in my family about thoughts. Our family friends, the Marsdens, dread when Craig (father) says he wants to share a thought. Due to the length of his thoughts, his children would much prefer a lesson to a thought. Anyway, this is not a Craig thought, it's just a regular thought. 

Here goes...

This whole prop 8 thing has been on my mind a lot. It's frustrating to see the reaction and the disrespect that has followed in the wake of its passing. My thought is I'm so grateful that we live in a country where the voice of the people matters. The voice of the people (and not just the Mormon people...California is not 52% Mormon) has spoken and we are saying that traditional families are important--not just for educational, religious, and political reasons, but for the basic perpetuation of society. I appreciate that we have a lot of different people with very different views and lifestyles, but I don't think the noisy minority should continue to torment the silent majority. 

Anyway, I'm so grateful for the family I was raised in, for the family my husband was raised in, and for my husband. We surely are blessed to live in this country.