An Election Reflection

What impressed me the most about our recent elections was not the candidates, the political parties, or even the ballot issues.

What impressed me most was all of you, who quietly and peacefully stood up and spoke out at the ballot box.

Our Founding Fathers are smiling, and so am I.

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Postscriptum: Apparently, some folks remain confused about the point of this post. It has nothing to do with any individual political candidate or any political party. It is solely about the voter turnout at the election, and how important it is for all of us to be anxiously engaged in the election of our leaders. Good grief!

After the Election?

Prior to the trembling birth of our great nation’s “American Excellence”, Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls” ( “The American Crisis”).

Nowadays, many likeminded and concerned citizens feel the same way about our elected and wanna-be elected officials, as well as for the future of West Virginia and our country.

Further, many of us didn’t much care for our election choices.

Me?

While I am pleased and proud to return and report that I was the very first voter in West Virginia's Berkeley County, I also confess that my heart truly yearned for some better ballot box choices.

Simply put: Too many, in both major political parties, far too often seek out their own self-aggrandizement, as well as intrusion over the lives of all of us and our families.

Far too often, their pandering political flatulence leads them to believe that they know better than we do about what’s best for us and our families.

Even so, and regardless of who you supported in this year’s elections, let not our hearts be troubled.

There are many steps that still and should be enacted into law, to make West Virginia and our nation greater.

First Voter!

 

 

  It indeed was my pleasure and privilege to continue my personal tradition of being Berkeley County's first voter in West Virginia's early voting (Wednesday, 26 October 2016), and possibly even the first early voter in all of West Virginia.

  Of course, the only vote over which any of us have absolute control is our own personal vote.

  My citizen duty and responsibility to vote is most sacred to me, and has been the focus of much personal prayer.

  You see, when I vote, it is important to me, as my moral and citizen obligation, to cast my vote for the candidate who I believe is the best qualified to lead us.

  That's why my vote is not on the basis of how others or their organizations may or may not be encouraging me to vote, nor is it on the basis of any misleading narratives about false limitations on our ballot choices. 

 And so it is, that after prayerfully pondering the previous governing records and character histories of all of the Presidential candidates, who are on the ballot in all fifty states, it is my and many other Americans pensive and poignant preference for a better choice of candidates.

 Nonetheless, I also feel confident that my choice, from among those eligible candidates, would, on balance, serve our country best.

 

 Others also should vote their consciences, and that's only as it should be.

 

 All votes count!

 

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A Plea for Prayer & Fasting

In the Old Testament of our Bible, we're warned of when "...the leaders of this people cause them to err...and every mouth speaketh folly... (but) For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still." (Isaiah, Chapter 9).

Truly, now more than ever, our nation needs guidance and strength from the outstretched hand of our Father in Heaven, as we are about to make our election choices.

Accordingly, let us as a nation join together in fasting and prayer for His guidance in for whom we vote on election day.

In this way, the Old Testament's Esther once saved a nation; through her and her people's humble fasting, prayer, and courage.

May it also be thus now for us and our families on our election day.

If you can't fast, then simply and sincerely pray for God's inspiration and grace to guide all of us in the voting booth.

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