Within the past hour, our nation just inaugurated President Obama, the first African American to have taken the oath of office. As the President pointed out, sixty years ago, his own father would not have been able to be seated in a local restaurant but since then, our nation has grown to the point at which the color of one's skin does not prevent someone from taking the highest position in the land. When the President was born, there were still places in this country in which blacks could not vote, use the restroom, or live. Today, this country has proven that we have grown to an amazing level in the way that we think about the things that divide us.

It is time for our nation to stop being divided by barriers such as race and ethnicity. We are all Americans.

I have been and will still be critical of the President's policy on abortion. But I will also be praying for the President and his family every single day. I will be praying that God will give him wisdom, protection, and that he will do an outstanding job in leading our nation. I think he has done an outstanding job during the transition period and I will be praying that he will make the decisions that need to be made at this point in time.

May every American support and pray for the President and his family.

And America needs to congratulate itself - not because of the skin color of the person who is now our Chief Executive - but because we as a nation have grown to the point that for the overwhelming majority of Americans, it didn't matter one way or the other. God Bless America!