We have a responsibility to protect and defend our children from gun violence, hate, and intolerance.
We have a responsibility to nurture our children to be their better selves, develop their talents, and grow purposefully into the person the Lord meant for each child.
We have a responsibility to teach each child the meaning of love in empathy, tolerance in compassion, good deeds in fellowship, faith in kindness, and confidence in the fullest measure of self fully connected with a purity of heart to the love and peace of the Holy Spirit.
We have a responsibility to leave this planet better than when we entered it.
Therefore, we must fight climate change and elect leaders who are willing to fight with us, not against us.
For what good is wealth if we do not have health, wellness, and well-being to enjoy life purposefully?
We must teach children to find ways to solve problems without resorting to violence, lies, or game cheats.
For we cannot always be there each step of the way and will not live forever, they learn to care for one another, must take up the mantle of leadership, and lead as problem solvers, not problem makers.
If we are to lead by example, we need to elect leaders who are good role models, not prone to violence, hate, spite, ignorance, crude vulgarities, and inhumane cruelties.
It would also be nice if the role models were not convicted felons, racists, insurrectionists, seditionists, or fascist dictator wannabes.
We must do everything we can to help our children live a wonderful life; full of amazing wonder and enlightened mysteries yet to be discovered.
And keep at bay as long as possible the trials, tribulations, and ugliness that sometimes come with the struggles of life.
Give our children a chance to come into their own well-prepared and well-adjusted to face anything that may come their way.
That cannot happen if we live in a world that strips women and girls of their basic human right of self-determination, basic care, and control of their bodies.
That cannot happen if we live in a world without respect, honor, dignity, and decency for all people.
Therefore, let's elect public servants who are respectful and honorable and will treat all people with dignity and decency.
And serve the people with empathy and compassion knowing that life is a struggle at times and we all have challenges we must live through.
Let us unite under that banner of freedom, dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal, and work in service of one another to make this world a better place for our children and future generations so that our children’s inheritance of freedom, well-being, and a habitable planet will long endure.