Cost of Citizenship

I cannot tell you the hassle it has been to vote this year.  I cannot tell you the amount of time Hubster spent on emails, online research, scanning, and mailing information.  I can tell you with pride that I voted.  I will never forget a documentary about the first elections after Saddam Hussein demise.  I will never forget the looks on people's eyes as they held up their dyed fingers, denoting they had voted, with unadulterated glee.  I will never forget the pride and extra height radiating from women voting for the first time ever.

I am proud to vote.  I am proud to be part of America.  I am thankful for the right to vote, the responsibility to vote and the gift it is to be able to vote.

I am thankful mostly though, as I watch the world changing, that my citizenship is not here on earth but in heaven.