While I am not in your country, I have watched with interest the course of events in recent times. It is a challenge not to be disheartened at the changes taking place in the world, at the abandonment of Godly values.

It has been encouraging simply to find people who didn’t fall for the, “any promise of change must be a good thing” rhetoric.

I, too, have been in mourning, with all its sadness and anger and disbelief. I don’t understand how good people, Christ-followers, folks who would agree that children are God’s best work could vote for a man whose track record and statements reveal such disdain for life that he would vote “no” on that Hitler-esque procedure known euphemisticaly as “partial-birth abortion.” I don’t understand how people who value marriage as it was intended by our Creator could vote for a man who cozies up to those who want to redefine that relationship. Nor do I understand how people who really believe that Christians should be at the forefront of giving charitably of themselves and their money to ease the horrors of poverty around the world could vote for a man whose own personal giving, last year, amounted to less than 1% of his income. But they did. Where is the discernment?

Okay, I hereby promise to stop my recitations, begin practicing some gratitude for God’s great gifts and His sovreignty, love and grace. I will begin to practice trusting Him; I need that practice, because I’m not very good at it. And I will print out your list and put it on the wall behind my desk, writ large enough to read from my chair.

Thanks, once again, for putting so much of what has been in my own thoughts into well-chosen and ordered words. And God bless you.