What can we say?

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In face of all this, what is there left to say? If God is for us, who can be against us? He that did not hesitate to spare his own Son but gave him up for us all—can we not trust such a God to give us, with him, everything else that we can need?

          JB Phillips  (Romans 8:31)

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What then shall we say?

If God is for us

Who can be against us?

 

Who?

What?

 

Everything!

Or so it seems…

 

“They” are against us

Pick your own version of “they”

 

Those liberal, communists

Those MAGA fascists

 

Those who are BIPOC

Those who are LGBTQI+

Those who are immigrants

Second-amendment radicals

 

It is American as apple pie

(is that still American?)

To use fear to motivate

 

“Our candidate is losing by 2% points”

“They are pouring millions into the race against our candidate”

“If those liberals get control…”

“If those fascists get control…..

“If”

“If”

“If”

 

Then we are done for!

 

It is time for gloom and doom

Time for panic

Time to get out and vote

Time to pull out your credit card and give!

 

Lost, somewhere

In all the fear and despair

Is love

 

We talk about the law of attraction

Honestly, it probably doesn’t work

But, if we do, I think, become what we consume, mentally and spiritually

Because where we are focused mentally and spiritually

Is where we put our energy, and is what determines our actions

 

If we align our thoughts, our emotions, our souls

With the negative

With hate, fear, and negativity

 

No wonder we are encouraged to

“Set our minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth,…”

 

If we want to reflect love

Kindness

Compassion

Forgiveness

 

We have to focus on those things

If we want to reflect the Sacred

We have to focus on the God of Love

 

We might win the day, in politics”

With negativity

But we will not

We will not usher in the                               Kingdom of Love

Merely the oppressive and brutal

Empire of the World

 

John Lennon had it right!

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance…”