The Republican National Convention has begun, and I just listened to a brief introduction by Laura Bush and Cindy McCain, then watched the footage showing each of the Governors in affected areas speaking.

The most important bit of information I want to share is the website with places you can send help as you see need and feel the pull to do so.

The site is http://www.CauseGreater.com.

This is new in the news, at least to me.  Sarah has an unmarried daughter who is pregnant, she will be marrying the father of the child. This is all that I know, but I’m sure more will come out in the days to come.

As a mother who raised a daughter, though she didn’t get pregnant before marriage, it is something all mothers think about, so I can understand how this must be affecting the family.  This is something that can happen to anyone, a private issue brought public by the fact that Palin is a Vice Presidential candidate.  I hope we can watch and see the positive way this is handled, and not destroy the life of this precious daughter through media bashing.  The challenges in life refine a person… this is another event in the life of Sarah Palin and her family that will bring understanding toward others who have experienced the same thing.

God bless this precious new life that is going to come into this world, and the family.

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Update later today…I have to admit I’m a little embarrassed that I even put a post like this on my site, adding to the many who are mentioning this issue…I do want to add in the Palin Family statement that was made later in the day, and then say no more:

“We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents…she knows she has our unconditional love and support.  Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child…we ask the media to respect our daughter and levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”

…that is the question.  I have read absurd things eluding to Hurricane Gustov being an act of God against the Republicans…ugh. Frankly, the first couple days of the Democratic National Convention were nothing to get excited about, and if we as a Nation can be focusing on our friends in the south, offering our help where needed, and prayer, it is a far greater thing than politics….there’s plenty of time for politics in the days to come.

As my husband says, if anything negative happens in New Orleans, the naysayers will find a way for it to be “the current administrations” fault, and if not, somehow there will be something to blame on the Republican administration, if possible.  Actually I’m hoping for better than that.

I am looking forward to seeing the ultimate affect of Hurricane Gustov on the Republican National Convention, sometimes the unscripted things in life can bring about it’s greatest moments…this is what I’m counting on….already hearing of McCain and convention organizers setting up telethons to help our friends in the South.

Laura Bush will speak about the hurricane relief later today, plans are still in the making for how the Convention will work.  Cindy McCain will be teaming up with her.  Most of the speeches by President Bush and VP Cheney have been canceled…more later.

Watching, waiting, praying.