Remember, Remember

            Tomorrow is the day. The day where, if you are the appropriate age, you may make the choice to go to a designated area and choose someone to lead this country in the next four years of its timeline. Whatever reasons you have to choose this person, not choose the other person, or not to choose to choose either both is completely your choice to make. It is after all your right as an American to choose to make any of these choices, just having a right to do something, doesn't mean you are forced to. And sometimes we do feel forced to do something don't we?

            Where ever we live, there are always factors that cause us to feel forced into something. Maybe you live in an area where you are spread out from everything else, and you are forced to drive to work or school. Perhaps you are forced to walk miles to the nearest grocery store. Forced to have to live with poor housing, poor healthcare, a poor environment. We are forced to deal with the hand we are dealt. Some factors we cannot change though, then again there are some factors that we do have the ability to change.

            With enough people, with enough support the problems of this world COULD be solved. and since they could be solved, shouldn't they AUGHT to be solved? What are WE doing? Are WE carrying the weight we should, or are we just letting someone else carry the baggage? Those leaders that we put into a position to run things, are we not putting the baggage on them? I ask you to prayerfully consider the consequences and/or benefits of putting someone in a position of authority.

            Truthfully these individuals who are running for the office of presidency, they have been traveling here and there urging people to support them and their policies, their promises; they have been urging you do vote for them. It's indeed a game of gaining trust. Perhaps you have heard lies from both sides. Perhaps you haven't. Perhaps some of their plans seem too good to be true, perhaps they sound terrifying and you feel as though that policy could tear this country to shreds even faster. But I ask you to prayerfully consider the consequences and/or benefits of putting someone in a position of authority.
            And after you have made your choice, how are you going to follow up in that person's plan? Will you go along with it, or will you make your own path and try to stay on the sidelines of debate and clashing forces? Are you looking at this next presidential candidate as a person who is just going to bring more money to the nation, or someone who is looking at the human way of living in this country and the world? Truthfully, when one country comes into power, other countries have suffered. It's been truth since the dawn of time. Animals fighting other animals for territory, for survival. Some say "it's the way life is." Some say "it's the law of the strongest survives." But I ask you to prayerfully consider the consequences and/or benefits of putting someone in a position of authority.

            How many people just trying to get food, water, knowledge and shelter to their family have been trampled on by the policies of "dominating" countries or leaders? Have we voted for those leaders? Have we unconsciously helped them? Only to one day realize that we have been deceived? It hurts to be deceived doesn't it? In this case, deceiving us could lead to pain and suffering for hundreds, thousands, millions and billions of people. I ask you to prayerfully consider if you have ALL the facts straight.

            I'm not urging or pleading you not to vote. That is not at all what I am saying. But being in the dark, making a choice could be potentially dangerous. I do however urge you to step forward and start making a difference for the people you live with, live next to, to love your neighbor and your enemy as well. It's not easy, but with ENOUGH PEOPLE, those leaders in seats of power placed there by other people don't seem so large. Pick up the baggage, get the facts straight. I'm urging us all to engage in civil dialogue about what is really going on in this country and the world, and the role you as an individual plays.