The Inauguration

             It's been a long time since the day that I had watched a presidential inauguration for the first time....sixty years....January 20, 1961....sixty-nine days after Bill Mazerowski cleared the left field wall of Forbes Field....over the gaze of Yogi Berra....."It ain't over till it's over"....of which at ten years old the home run was infinitely more important than JFK's speech. 
             You'll have a hard time believing this....I have never heard Lady Gaga sing. OK.....I'm sure that she was singing on the radio or something when I was present in the room....but I didn't realize it. I guess that she was in a movie....can't even tell you that name. She sang the National Anthem a few minutes ago.....and I still have never heard her sing....but it takes a little story to tell you why....
            I take our National Anthem seriously. Our town has a small bell tower that plays music.....and for some reason the National Anthem is among the songs.....and when it plays.....when I am in town....I face the speaker and stand at attention....while others seem to just keep on walking by.
           An Ohio radio station plays our anthem right before the noon news. I'll have often just tuned in to hear Rush Limbaugh coming on.....but I turn the sound down....because the playing of the National Anthem has become too trivialized. So as this latest celebrity was announced....while she was coming down the steps of the Capitol....I grabbed the remote and muted it....and then unmuted it to hear the rest of the swearing in ceremonies....or so I thought....as I muted it again in the middle of Garth Brooks singing Amazing Grace....for it was too odd of a scene to even comprehend....for nowadays even Amazing Grace is beginning to be trivialized.
          So I reached to my left and turned on Rush Limbaugh.....but I had to turn that off also.....as his comments were just the continued beating of the drum for Donald Trump. God's Word contradicts Yogi Berra's famous statement...."It ain't over till it's over"....for when God speaks it....which He has....it is already done....and as His words in Daniel 8:28 tell us...."The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many years from now."