Today I stayed home because I woke up feeling unwell.  Michele isn’t feeling well either.  It’s been a day of alternating between sleeping and sitting stupidly on the couch.

I find current news in this country to be quite depressing, although not surprising.  We’ve all lived in the proverbial house of cards for years and years.  In addition, I believe whatever moral compass this country ever had — if it ever had any — has gone completely haywire and we are reaping the rewards of that.  An example is the extremely nasty political season, one which I think is by far the worst and most extreme of any that I’ve ever experienced.  I’m not happy with either side of the political spectrum but there is absolutely no way that I could in any good conscience vote for Obama/Biden. I’ll just leave it at that.

One of the things that I always struggle with and particularly at times like this, is the fact that as a follower of Christ, I need to place my hope completely in Him.  I try to remember Psalm 20:7 among other Bible verses.  I think one of the worst aspects of American evangelical Christians is a weird and twisted belief in achieving their goals via political ends. Like the U.S. is the true “promised land” and our country is God’s beacon to the rest of the world.  This is not to deny the fact that we have been incredibly blessed in this country and that a huge amount of good has come from it.  (Any good that has been done has come from the wellspring of Judeo-Christian values, in my view.) But the thought that we Christians should try to legislate morality at a time when we have long since lost our own moral compass and live exactly the same as everyone else, just makes me want to weep.

I’m sick and tired and overwhelmed. I worry about providing for my wife and children.  I’ve always struggled to be positive rather than negative in outlook (ironic, isn’t it? since I profess to believe that God is fully in control.)