Post-Election Non-Elective: Praise

O lord, open my lips
and my mouth shall declare your praise.

To mention a few items.

The church is in the heart of those who love God whether they proclaim that love or in their injuries lament their loss. It will not fail that the Lord will hear their cries and complaints.

One course is to confess belief in God's love,in trust, to love God, to empty oneself. I am more capable of giving even as I do not exist as I once assumed I existed. I do not not exist, but I do not pertain in my existence except to say I love.

Because all is from God, I have no fear except that others might fall or fail numb to his hand, blunted to the word.

To serve. Take your opportunities or make them. It could not be simpler, and your audience is immediately present. You say THIS and it always was so. But now I see and do. Ah. So is service. There is no shame in service. There is no glory except in service.

I cannot simply dispel your fear, your doubt. But I say yes and you just might forget yourself. Praise God.

I vote choice for I cannot fail to allow others choice, even as I praise life. I vote inclusion beyond every imagined theory of inclusiveness, for I am mere flesh, incapable of more; I am sad and sorry and unprepared to list ALL. And so I say yes, as instructed, to do what I can.

I do what I can, and I say yes.

I say, and I vote, a conscience that, having been tutored by the Spirit to love God, surely can be trusted to pull the plow of politics in the United States of America in 2012 which at worst can be likened to ants at the picnic of the feast and at best is a best, shadowed intention of the self-same YES.