I went out with my son tonight for a Coldstone ice cream desert on Miracle Mile in Coral Gables and happened to see this painting for sale in the window sill. With the inauguration of President elect Obama less than a week away, I thought that this depiction of Obama as Superman was symbolic.
Superman is the hero, the man of steel, the one to save you in peril and despair. Well, alot of us are living financial peril and despair and we are looking for this new leader to save us. The way I look at it is that this man has the courage and vision to take us to a better place. But he can’t do it alone. Hopefully he is intelligent enough to pick the right team in every arena and delegate efficiently the most pressing matters.
I as a realtor in Miami and living this reality of financial peril as my income has dropped dramatically in these last two years, I have had to totally restructure the way I work. I did vote for Obama. I want change. Even if you didn’t vote for him, the reality is that he is going to be our President and leader for the next four years.
My belief about salvation is that we have to look to ourselves first. We have to have the courage within ourselves to rise above our difficulties and challenges no matter what they are. And because we are living one of the most downward financial cycles since the Great Depression, let us all reflect back to President elect Obama the courage within us to support him so that we can rise above this without peril and into safety.
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