While no one can or should tell you how you should vote, you need to keep in mind what a vote means.

I have heard many people say that they are voting for a given candidate only because they do not want the another candidate in office. Or they happen to be voting for a candidate merely because they like one or two things they say or points of view they share.

This is all wrong! You should be voting because you are behind the candidate. There is not other reason, it should be because you believe in them and what they will do in office.

In the Bible it refers to a person giving help to another person in the name of God and sharing in their reward. If we share in the good that is done by a person when we support them, does it not make sense that we share in the bad they do which we know they will do? I believe we will, but I do not know to what extent.

All I do know is that we should be very careful when voting. Do you think it is right to vote for someone who you know will do bad things all to justify it in the belief that they will do more good than bad?

Do we pick someone to vote for simply because they promise to do things we like in one or two areas and ignore what they do in others?

Example, are you willing to vote for someone because they will promise more jobs, better economy or better health care and ignore their public pro stance on abortion? Is there anything a candidate can promise that justifies voting for someone that believes and will do all in their power that people should be allowed to murder babies up to birth?

What about someone that you know is corrupt? Is there anything they could promise you that would make you vote for them if you cannot trust them?

What can a candidate promise to get your vote if the will trample on your religious freedoms and not allow you to express your faith in public places such as government, schools, work places, etc?

Whatever your stance on the candidates we have to choose from, you need to think of all the bad things you are going to cast your vote for not just the good. It does not matter what the person next door nor what your family think, you know right from wrong and you need vote what is right.

My vote will be as usual, None of the Above. I personally do not believe that any candidate has shown themselves worthy to be in office. If you strip away what you think they have done for you or to you, what have you left?

Pray, I know God will never tell you to vote for a murderer nor one that supports it!

In the world of today, we have a tendency to lose track of what is important and what it means to be parents.

Today, I was at the grocery store and as I was about to leave I notice a woman with four children, none of which could have been over the age of five. As the woman was walking to the car, all the kids ran to the car, which was about fifteen feet away. The mother started back towards the store talking to a friend and as she did, one of the children ran back after her, which just happened to be in front of a car. The car spotted her and stopped. The mother started yelling and cursing at the children and telling a couple of them that they should be paying more attention.

This was sad to me as it reminded me how few of parents really understand what it is to be a parent. In today's world, it seems that everyone is always trying to push the responsibility on to someone else. In this instance, it was the mother trying to place the blame for the situation on a child less than five years old simply because "She" was not handling her responsibility and paying attention to what the children were doing in a parking lot. Moreover, attacking them verbally with such hostility was sad.

It seems that parents are wrapped up in their own lives and expecting the children to come along for the ride, instead of realizing that it is their duty to nurture and grow their children.

Be a parent, your children are worth it!