Anna M. Aquino

  Twelve years ago my parents, my oldest daughter (then an infant) and I were in a hotel room in Cocoa Beach, FL.   My mom and I had walked down to get breakfast, and when the spunky petite waitress announced that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center.    It hadn’t occurred to me that America and our world was forever changed.   Honestly we didn’t understand the severity of what happened.   My mom and I finished out breakfast, and found my dad outside.   Together we made our way back to the room, and stayed there glued to the TV starring in horror for the better part of the day.   I was watching Tom Browkaw try to hold it together as the first tower fell, and then the second.   I watched in horror as we realized the Pentagon had been flown into and as the plane on the field was discovered.   Being there in that moment only minutes down the road from an Air Force Base, with my father who was a grunt soldier in Vietnam, wa...

The American elections are tomorrow and I am going to address my fellow American’s today for the blog. If you are one of the many blog readers of mine that are outside of the US, I love you all and I want to encourage you all to be praying for our elections tomorrow. Our nation needs it. To those of you who may read this blog and not agree with me, realize I still love you and we can still be friends. :-) This is my opinion. However God has given me a platform, and I need to use it the way God wants me to or I will be accountable one day before Him. While so many don’t speak out due to fear of losing one’s non-profit status, the Constitution already put in motion that churches and ministries would be tax exempt regardless. To my fellow Americans, For far too long we have held on to some misguided notion that believers didn’t need to be involved in our political process. We like to cling tightly to the notion of separation of church in state when really that was a phrase coi...