Well done, good servant

God has sent Donald Trump to help rescue our great country. “Well done, good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:23)

God is the victory over evil. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. God’s plans and answers have always been all people’s answers, no matter who you are or where you live. We are God’s children.

God wants his children to share the message of his Son’s salvation, peace and love for all — remembering we can have consequences through our God-given free will and Satan — to teach us rights and wrongs, teaching us to be aware that we need preparation for the Second Coming.

President-elect Donald Trump has been through a process according to God’s will, not everyone’s will. We can as God’s children pray for those who do not agree or are without Christian faith. God is and will always be in control of his creation.

With the opportunity to be part of this election, we are blessed to have our freedoms and beliefs, a second chance to “be still and know that I am God.”

If all people make a heartfelt decision to follow what brings us love, peace and harmony, accepting and respecting each other’s differences, we can live our lives according to the plan God has given us.

— Carol Cauble

Salisbury

Obama found his legacy

For awhile now it seems Obama has been concerned about his legacy, some signature accomplishment during his tenure from which he can hang his hat. It can’t be his divisive domestic policies, or his “lead from behind” foreign policies. His economic policies that brought about this lukewarm recovery can’t be included. And certainly not his Constitution-less immigration and border control policies, as well as his much vaunted but imploding more everyday Affordable Care Act!

There is however one thing he can lay claim to and that is he presided over the biggest American revolution since the American Revolution.

Donald Trump’s victory was by no means a landslide. Yet over 55 million people voted to reject and repudiate Obama’s policies, his call to “fundamentally change America.” This call was a call that Hillary seemed to embrace seeing how she never distanced herself from Obama.

Her campaign slogan of “Stronger Together” I also found interesting. Wherever I heard that slogan I couldn’t help but think the word “together” meant you, me, and the federal government. Hillary was representing more of the same. Trump is representing enough is enough.

I don’t envy Trump’s task. He’s going to need to stay strong, bold, and courageous to get things done. He needs to act like a leader, not a politician.

In the meantime Obama has finally found his legacy. I suspect it’s not the one he envisioned. It is however one that he has earned.

— Allan Gilmour

Salisbury