Good Thoughts

[ALAYMAN]

I recently read the Shelby Foote civil war history. One of the things that stood out to me was the prayer life of several of the men on both sides. Their love and devotion for God, as well as their deep conviction that they were fighting for His righteous cause.

I wonder if this might cause you to have a little more contemplated thought about those that pray for both Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, for instance, all the while, abiding by their conscience to preserve this great Union and its freedoms from being corrupted by socialism and other harmful effects of the Democratic Party that has become unhinged.

I grew up in a Union home, valuing hard work and all of the things that a blue collar ideology typically champion. The progressive movement, which is in full swing now, not merely a talking point in abstraction, has completely changed that as an option. I work with a farmer (who is a lifelong democrat in a family that has actively participated in the civic process of voting and serving) who I’ve known for over 30 years, and he echoes what many moderate Democrats have said, “I didn’t leave my party, my party left me.”

So when we conservative and center-right moderates “hold our nose” and vote for imperfect candidates like Trump, it’s not without prayer that God will heal our land and give us more worthy candidates. It is, however, with the understanding that our country’s populace and the people who they elect are a reflection of a diverse group of people and ideologies.

And at the end of all that, those of us who are not blinded by the delusion that government is going to offer some utopian ideal, nor will it yield personal salvation for anybody, we nonetheless participate in the republic that is given to us by a sovereign God, who still remains on the throne, despite all of Trump’s, Clintons, Nixon’s, or Biden’s foibles.