HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005!!!!

I hope this new year meets you all with much joy, peace and happiness. I wish you all many blessings and ask that you keep Greg in your prayers throughout this new year, as he is deploying out for missions for our country.

This year will prove to be a very trying year for all of us as Americans as we continue to tackle the war on terrorism and all the other ills that are plaguing us from those who would do us harm. I just hope we all can grow during this year and can begin to tackle the issues of security and terrorism and intolerance that have become the bane of our existence. It takes more than us becoming fundamentalist, too, to fight fundamentalism. It takes us becoming tolerant and making an effort to understand the rest of the world instead of trying to force them to be like us. By forcing them, we only turn them further away from us. It's just like the lessons I've learned about leadership...you discipline your people, but you love them. There's no other way in this world to win this war than just that, to show them that we love them, yet stick to our guns on our society---but this presupposes that we allow them to be themselves instead of trying to force a square peg into a round hole by trying to make them just like us.

Have a wonderful new year, and God Bless!