Fellow Christians, our God does not abandon.

Fellow Christians, (the rest of you, feel free to ignore this as it may not make a lot of sense to you...)

Many of you are completely dismayed with the results of last night's election.  Many of you are completely elated.

Please remember that no matter what last night's outcome was, we worship a loving and merciful God, who shelters His people.  Our lives are in His hands.  We belong to neither democrats nor republicans, but to Him.  And no matter how you feel about last night's outcome...now would be a bad time to stop praying for the country.

Just remember what God promised Abraham.  The world and our country are filled with evil, but they are also filled with good, and joy, and random acts of kindness and love for fellow man.  This would be the case no matter who was president.

²³ Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?²⁴ What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare^[c]the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? ²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

²⁶ The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

²⁷ Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, ²⁸ what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?”

“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

²⁹ Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”

He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”

³⁰ Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”

He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

³¹ Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”

He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”

³² Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”

He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

I'll be the first to admit that I'm naive.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm naive.

But I really, truly believe that the common person does what he or she thinks is the right thing.

I believe that most people vote for what they think is moral.

I will not speak for any person who runs for president, because I think people who run for president are greedy.  Believe me, you don't want to hear my soap box on that.

A mark of maturity is to be able to hold seemingly conflicting truths at the same time.

Someone may support something you think is evil...AND...they might still be a good person.  In fact, they may genuinely believe that YOUR belief is evil.

Some of my friends will read this and think I wrote it with them in mind.  They may be partially right.  There are many more with whom I wrote this in mind who will not get it at all.

Just please remember that your fellow woman or man is still your fellow woman or man, and that you aren't going to change anybody's mind by spitting vitriol at them.

Respectful dialogue is the name of the game.  Don't tell me "but so and so doesn't play nice!" because you can't control anyone else's actions, only your own.  So let it start with you.

And I hope you are still my friend after election season.