ELECTION DAY MESSAGE

Pastor: Ask God's Guidance

In Time Of National Division

Editor's Note: The Rev. Paul Messner, pastor of the county's Lutheran churches, including Oneonta's Church of the Atonement and Hartwick Seminary's Evangelical Luther Church, sent out this Election Day message to his flock.

Today is Election Day.  I hope you will be doing your civic duty and going to vote – if you haven't already.  The news companies are reporting that prior to today nearly 100 million Americans have already cast their ballots.

It is always a solemn and powerful time in our federal republic, that we have the privilege to freely cast our democratic vote and, in so doing, choose our leaders at the federal, state and local levels of government.  This is a right too few people in our world enjoy.