Watching or Not? It’s a Sunday evening before the 2020 Presidential Election and I’m sitting here preparing a speech for my monthly event, when I decided to check my emails and ran across a post from O’ Magazine. The topic of discussion was, “Where do you plan to be on election night versus where you were in 2016?” My God! Do I remember where I was in 2016? At the time I had Cable TV and I was glued to CNN until the final verdict was reached. This was nothing new to me, since I had been watching CNN for the past eight years while President Obama was in office, but this night I was up til 4:00am. However, a week after the 2016 election I cancelled my cable because from that day forward I refused to allow the media, in any form, to take up that much space in my mind, especially with such a drastic outcome. I have to admit that I was devastated and living alone did not help.
So what about this November 3rd? Where will I be? Will I watch the Election? Yes I will. However, I did take the following day off just to detox and not have to talk to anyone about the outcome no matter what happens. Will I be devastated if my party doesn’t win? Of course not! This time around I did not allow myself to become so invested in the political process to the point where my ability to function is based on the outcome. For the past four years I have depended on God and He has not failed me yet! I will continue to put my sole trust in Him and Him alone. So no matter what happens on Tuesday, November 3rd I’ll be alright and so will you.