January 2025

I read with amusement our Tribune columnist Ron Moore’s summary printed last week of what other columnists write about in the pages of the Tri-County Tribune on a regular basis. He was right when he noted that I, personally, have not written much in the way of opinions lately. It’s not that I don’t have plenty of opinions or subjects to write about; they swirl in my head constantly, begging to be let out on paper. The problem is timing (there is never enough) and the responsibility I take seriously that comes with serving as editor of this publication takes priority over personal opine.

I can be pretty selfish sometimes and try to make the whole world about me. Do you ever do that? Most of us probably do at some point. And sometimes I do that when I think about how much God loves ME! See I know that I am a blessed child of God and that God loves me more than I can understand. What I forget is, that God loves everyone else that much too. That’s EVERYONE else. All of us.

The Constitution is very limited in establishing traditional guidelines for the inauguration, saying only that there should be a taking of an oath. President Washington started the tradition of the Inaugural Address. James and Dolly Madison started the tradition of a reception and an inaugural ball. Thomas Jefferson’s second inauguration began the tradition of an open house at the executive mansion, but that tradition ended as a result of over eager crowds destructively overwhelming the White House.

Luke 24: 46-47 KJV “And He said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”