A note about our presidential election:

So yeah, I'm not the one that is quick to let my relationship with God show that much. It's there but I'm not comfortable being that vocal about it. Sometimes I get brave but mostly I'm a scaredy pants. But I feel that this needs to be said in light of tomorrow's events.

I know a few people who have a real strong conviction as to who needs to be in office. I'm not like that. I don't really subscribe to any one political party and I feel that the person who is supposed to win will and that God will use that person to do what HE wants to have done. Anyway, I worry about these people (and I'm related to a lot of them) that they might have some serious issues when their candidate is not elected.

Our pastor said something really cool yesterday that hit me. It was one of those DUH! moments; I already knew this but I guess my brain never really formed it into a concrete thought. Pastor George said that we shouldn't overinvest ourselves in the election, propositions, candidates: they are simply mechanisms of governance that GOD uses on earth. Don't worry about the choices set before us. They aren't our only choices. We are citizens of heaven which is neither republican nor democrat, liberal nor conservative. Don't be discouraged, do your best and pledge your allegiance to God in heaven. If your candidate doesn't win, pray about it, dust yourself off and move on.

God is sovereign and He will work things out.

Check out the first 5 minutes of the sermon if you want to hear George's actual words since I probably botched them up in my paraphrasing of them.

http://www.theshoreline.org/content.aspx?id=308

You will probably get this in e-mail form today. Sorry. :)