Indescribable...

On this AWESOME historic day, November 4, 2008 I started my day at 5am. Well actually earlier than that because I could not sleep. I recently joined a morning radio show and close to the end of the week as we would announce "how many days until election day", I was getting tired of waiting. I was just ready for this day to hurry up and get here. Well it is here and I woke up several times before I got out of bed at 5am to get ready to go to the radio station. The show starts and 6am... I still can't believe I am doing this. I am NOT A MORNING PERSON!!! But I have been having a great time on the show.

Well this morning felt different. As I got dressed and heading to the station I felt this knot in my stomach... my anxious belly began early this morning. Then when the show started at 6am and the callers started calling in to report their invigorating experiences at the polls as they waited in line to cast their vote... I connected with others that had the same anxious indescribable feeling in thier belly. This is an AWESOME time for the United States, and we are going to do it... I can just feel it in my belly.

I was saying to one of the co-host on the radio show, that I truly can't imagine Barack Obama not being elected as the next President of the United States. I have never gone into something with such optimism and not at least explored the possibility of the "what if" it doesn't happen. I usually at least think about the "what if" scenario, at least once... as a way to prepare myself for disappointment. This experience has changed me at a deeper place, beyond the election and the roles of policy makers, policy enforcers, and policy interpretors ... this is one of the few times in my life that I have experienced the truth of what HOPE is.
Webster's definition of HOPE:
1: to desire with expectation of obtainment
2: to expect with confidence

I expect with confidence that Senator Barack Obama will be elect the next President of the United States. I don't predict it... I expect it. Because WE have united for change, and it is that Unity that give me HOPE.

I can't wait for the announcement....