If you know me, and you must since you can read my blog, you know that I'm a Mormon. Perhaps we haven't had the opportunity to really talk about my beliefs. In that case, you can either ask me questions or you can visit my I'm a Mormon profile. I believe in Christ. I know Christ. I've felt His guidance throughout my life. I know we can all have peace and clarity in this crazy life if we but learn to trust in Him. I love you all and hope you may come closer to God in your own lives as well.

Hope

Sure, that was the candidacy term for his first election and now he has fashioned himself under the term "forward".  Frankly, I don't see too much we can keep going backwards on.
All politics and disappointments aside, I really want Washington DC to get it together.  Start functioning as a government.  Get the job done and stop restricting cooperation based on biases to parties.  We are NOT a people of party platforms.  We are people.  We are THE people of The United States of America.  We need the government to remember that.  We have put our trust in them and expect things to be done, in a cooperative environment where every one is expected to compromise for the better of the whole.  Surely those in government offices are all earning a nice paycheck for their "service"...please make the time worth it.
I don't care if you are Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or whatever.  We shouldn't care if people are white, black, yellow, olive or purple, so we shouldn't be so overly concerned with a political party, either.  We all bleed the same.  We are all human and are divine children of God.  Act like it.
I continue to hope for a brighter future; one where we actually accomplish things and take ownership for our mistakes.  It's by making mistakes that we become better people.  Accepting those failures doesn't make you weak unless you just don't do anything to change it.
So, Congress and Mr. President, do something significant this term:  ACT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE REPUBLIC, not yourselves.
Thank you.