So hang with me for a minute before you decide to click off this and read what you're looking for. What pleases you....if you will. Isn't that why we log on most of the time. To check our awesome status, to see who liked it or made us feel like we mattered by commenting. I'm not making fun....obviously I am guilty too. But what is our motivation behind this. To take a few brief seconds to see what's going on and who cares enough to notice right?!. Again, referring back to the embassy picture reported by CNN....it was a scary reminder no matter the content of the picture that we are in trouble. We have been for a while. Let's just remember that in the middle of status post and scrolling through articles, yahoo, and going through our day that this little world we create for ourselves, can be torn at any minute. It is worth our time and effort to stop and pray about it. We remembered 9/11 this week. Doesn't seem possible after that day, that we could be sitting where we are still enjoying so much. But with it we are reminded that it all could change in the blink of an eye.
My prayer as we get closer to November is this. That we would be reminded to not be more caught up in the platforms, speeches, parties, promises, and the candidates. If we think for a second that they will solve our problems, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. There is not a party or a person that could pull us out of the mess we are in. As the US or as the world. We desperately need to stop bashing and tearing down, because that is a competitive frustration that will only divide us. We need to look into the root of the REAL problem and realize that God is the only one who knows the outcome, so we need to start asking him how to steer this country and its leaders.
America was not formed without this kind of direction. Take a dollar bill. "In God We Trust." We better. If we have any sense left. We need to look back to the roots and hearts of the people that started this country. I got the honor to visit Mount Vernon (home of George Washington) a few years back. It is beautiful and historic. It is the one place that I want to go back to someday. I've never known such a peaceful place. It is refreshing to walk around the grounds (especially in the fall) and imagine all the decision Washington made that had never been made for us as a nation before. To know that he fretted and stressed and prayed over such decisions. It was down right humbling actually. Standing in his study next to the desk and chair where some of these probably took place, I realized that after all he was just a man. Who needed direction. Needed help. Needed guidance and had everyone's opinion left and right. He was also someone who prayed. Thank God he did because I do believe it made our start and success firm in the beginning. The peace I felt that day was all too familiar to me. It was a place full of past prayers and hopes and vision.
There is no doubt in my mind that we are far from that now. But we are not as far as we think from the change we need if we act on it. Please remember to pray and ask God to guide us as a nation. Pray for our leaders. They are still human and they can be reached be a mighty God.
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