I could not help thinking - as I was watching the children’s choir sing “He’s got the Whole World in His hands” during the National Prayer Service which officially began President Obama’s first day of work - how much this song had new meaning. I sang it for the first time in the Christmas (yes, Christmas) pageant at my grammar school. At the time, I was not sure who that “He” was referring to, but it definitely was not Obama. As I aged, I got it. God has the whole world in his hands.
But last Wednesday on his first official day of work I could not help but think the choir was not referring to God, rather to our new president. President Obama literally has the world on his shoulders. No pressure.
Everyone, not just Americans, is watching him. Watching every single move he makes. From how he deals with the situation in the Middle East to how he deals with his mother-in-law. You would think with this kind of scrutiny and pressure, he is bound to fail or at least crack. Yet watching him navigate his first day of work after 10 inaugural balls, he looked smooth, calm, as if he was saying to all of us. “No problem. I’ve got it.”
Only time will tell if President Barack Hussein Obama truly has it but I’m hopeful.
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I could not help thinking - as I was watching the children’s choir sing “He’s got the Whole World in His hands” during the National Prayer Service which officially began President Obama’s first day of work - how much this song had new meaning. I sang it for the first time in the Christmas (yes, Christmas) pageant at my grammar school. At the time, I was not sure who that “He” was referring to, but it definitely was not Obama. As I aged, I got it. God has the whole world in his hands.
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