The United States has a new President. I'm sure many of you were watching yesterday when Joe Biden took the oath of office. The cermonial moments, the speeches, the bands and the marches - I find it all very moving. Oh and that stirring speech! It was a sort of call to action; a call to unite. On FOX, anchor Chris Wallace said “I thought it was a great speech. I thought this was the best inaugural address I ever heard.” High praise.
“Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson,” President Biden told us yesterday in that Inaugural Address. “There is truth and there are lies, lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and responsibility, as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders, leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our nation, to defend the truth and defeat the lies.”
Mr Biden spoke of another enemy too - divisiveness. "But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us." That was really the central theme of his speech. He outlined the many things that need fixing within our country and then said "To overcome these challenges - to restore the soul and to secure the future of America - requires more than words. It requires that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity."
Will we all unite? Will we be honest? Of course I don't have the answers, but thinking of the last part of President Biden's address, I do have hope. In closing he said "So, with purpose and resolve we turn to the tasks of our time. Sustained by faith. Driven by conviction. And, devoted to one another and to this country we love with all our hearts.
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