This & That

45 Days

Reflection.   45 Days!

Are the next 45 days really about the political battles before us.  Or is it really a time of purposeful distinction. purposeful division.

Is it really about Donald Trump -vs- Kamala Harris, or is it really about choosing between good -vs- evil.

LUKE 12:51-56

(51) “Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. (52) From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. (53) They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

(54) He said to the crowd: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does. (55) And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. (56) Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?”

We can all sense it.  Even if we turn away to engage in busyness as a distraction, the sense will not subside.

There is a great urgency needed in our communication with our family, friends, loved ones and overall community.  Do not negate your righteousness, nor diminish your instinctual value.  Do not fear.

Do not fear.

45 days!

Those who speak out are targeted, ridiculed, belittled, alinsky’d and shouted down until they are proved right.

Again and again, and again, and again, we were made to watch, or to endure the crude, bullying tactics of the social playground. Reasoned debate and argument have long since gone over the hill into uncomfortable history.

Now, the next 45 days, we enter one long slugfest, in which the loudest, angriest and most effectively insulting voices will seek to win by volume alone, so often echoed by mainstream media who hold reasoned voices in contempt; apparently preferring to ridicule and diminish rather than provide genuine space for those who had simple questions in need of non-pretending answers.

However, again and again, those shouted down are revealed as having been right all along.

If you are a regular reader of this site, you are generally a person who engages in intellectual discussion on daily events and more than likely a root cause thinker.  You do not pretend.  Meaning, you are able to grasp events at their cause and not at their consequence.

The challenge for all of us now is getting those who understand the big picture dynamics to stop being comfortable and sticking their heads in the sand about “motive.”

Most people are still clinging to beliefs around a principle of ‘rule of law’ that applies to national leadership writ large.   We need to change that thinking quickly – or we will be left explaining ‘what happened’ again, far too late.

There is also an issue with conservative “ushers” guiding their audience into a state of tactical numbness.  A willful blindness within part of the American electorate, a chosen refusal to acknowledge the implications of the unAmerican and unconstititional actions we are seeing on a daily basis.

It can no longer be presumed to be a matter of, “I can’t see what’s happening”, because a whole lot of normal Americans are clean and articulate.  “I can’t see it”, just doesn’t cut it.

Perhaps we see what is happening, but it’s scary and complicated and confusing.  Worse still, if we admit that we can see it, we become responsible in a way that we are not if we keep pretending, we can’t see it or hear it, or maybe don’t understand it.

Be honest inside your prayers.

Are we a bit afraid that if we give up the willful blindness we will perhaps start screaming, releasing the pent-up anger, and not be able to stop?

Fear not! Do we think we have so little courage? Do we really believe that we have no resources to bring to the battle? Or nothing more to contribute to the turning of the battle?  I do not believe this to be true.

I believe in all of us.

My faith is strong. I believe in righteousness.  I believe in a loving and purposeful God, and I believe in our ability to win.

We cannot escape the choosing.  We must not escape the choosing. Trust me when I say your resolve, while extremely important now, is going to become even more important in the next 47 days.

Whether you want to accept it or not, we are all in this battle.

Believe me – no one gets to avoid this one.

We need to get hard now.

We need to fight like we are the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s ark,… and brother, it’s starting to rain!

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President Donald Trump will win, because we will win.

We are having ballot challenging successes in the specific areas that count most.

We will win.

All my deepest love and appreciation for your fellowship,

~ Sundance