If we could only transfer the outrage over children being ripped from their parents to outrage over everyone who is being mistreated, it would be a far better world. That would make America great again. It's not that it wasn't great already either. However, it's now devolved into such chaos, that showing some simple respect for people would make America great again. We are a shadow of what we were before the circus came to town 516 days ago.
I firmly believe that Donald Trump is surrounded by a core chorus of religious zealots that have him thinking he is some kind of messiah, chosen by God to lead the USA. This is an incredibly horrible scenario which is the antithesis of the foundations of this great nation. Worst of all, these zealots are the type who routinely cherry pick scriptures and have a xenophobic, myopic slant to all their beliefs that are truly, not only un-American but actually anti-Christian. Ok, fake Christian is probably more appropriate.
This is quite the political rant it would seem. Look, when we are trying to be the best person that God created us to be, it requires great introspection, self evaluation, thought and especially movement on our own part. Sometimes tasks are undertaken on a personal level to have our lives come more in line, more cooperative, with what we say we believe and what we are trying to accomplish in our lives. That is to say, when we have personal stumbling blocks, we try to remove those stumbling blocks.
This is not only true of us as individuals. Today's passage from Matthew ( hopefully ) has us seeing the extent of God's love for each and every one of us and how concerned we should all be for each and every creation of God. Sometimes we cannot move froward or we realize we do not want to go forward unless everyone is on board. No one gets left behind. That is the gist of some of this passage. Right now is a time for this kind of brotherly call to action.
As much as I want to be the best gay man God created, as much as I want all of us to reach our individual potentials and be all that God created us to be, each as a unique gift graced to the world, we must now join hands and arms to fight the fight. THIS is the Christian thing to do. We must argue, write, call, vote and respond with our brothers and sisters to the evils of the political reality that has unfolded around us. We must not be a party to a fake Christian agenda. We should all do what our abilities allow, to respect everyone, and redress the policies that have not made the United states great, but a nation impoverished in spirit and frightfully alone in a world seeking unity. The United States is now that lone sheep that God calls out to. This is not a denominational God, a Christian God, a Jewish God, a Muslim God or a Sikh God. This is the God of all humanity that seeks each of us as individuals but is revealed in infinite ways, calling us to love.
We are called to compassionate, universal love and actions that reaffirm our beliefs.
Matthew 18:10-20
‘Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven. What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.
‘If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax-collector.Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.’
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