2012 Election Results
My heart is
heavy. I know some people are elated over the results of last night’s election,
I for one am not. And I think most of America is there with me. I have many
questions running through my mind as to how it could have gone the way it did.
I don’t think, after the past four years, Americans envisioned voting the 43rd
president back into office. This was my first time voting in a presidential
election, and I am mourning over what I believed occurred. I thought I lived in
the United States of America, the nation of freedom, prosperity, and
opportunity. Where we as citizens have our voices heard and are properly
represented by our votes, beliefs, and values. I thought I lived in a nation
that was opposed to corruption, cheating, and secrets. After last night I
realized I live in a nation that engages in these activities, and I live in a
nation where people are naïve enough to believe the lie.
As a part of
Generation Y (or Z) I don’t have the ability to let what is occurring in our
nation and economy roll off my back so easily as others. I know some in my
generation are more concerned with "standing for change" or "taking back our country". I am concerned
with the economic well-being and safety for our country. People have bought
into cool concepts of “change” and “a new beginning”. I have bought into better
concepts called jobs and freedom. I have my future ahead of me, and right
now I am worried over what that future will be.
I know in my heart
that God is in control, however I am still upset. I believe that feeling is
valid. Jesus didn't sit on his butt while on earth and wait for God to work. He
was active. He engaged. I am taking his lead, and I am engaged in the world I
live in. That is how to make a difference. My feelings over these results is
not over lack of faith or trust, my feelings are, as my mom so aptly described
it with C.S. Lewis' Narnia in mind, the longing for spring when it is always winter but never Christmas. My
heavy heart is due to the ache for spring.
"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry."
- 2 Timothy 4:3-5
"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry."
- 2 Timothy 4:3-5
