In our time
The night that Barack Obama was elected president of the United States of America I stayed up to watch his victory speech (and that involved staying awake until something like 4:00AM in the UK). I am not ashamed to admit that I shed a few tears while I listened to this gracious, dignified, intelligent and resilient man. He gave me hope for a better world. And despite the terrible backlash against him he has delivered on that promise, true to the ideals of the American people: ... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". I cannot help but contrast what Barack Obama has achieved in the last couple of years with the atrocities visited upon innocent people by IS. The fight goes on, between tyranny and freedom, between ignorance and knowledge, between hate and love. I am not a religious man, but if I were I w