Ask and You Shall Receive

It’s happening again, that time when we decide who will lead this country. With it comes the finger pointing and impatience with other people’s points of view, perhaps not as badly yet as 2016, but this is only the beginning.

For me, this period is torture. I hear (and sometimes partake) in disparaging, I cannot for the life of me understand where some people stand or how or why for that matter. So today’s reading and reflection on Pray as you go was very helpful. It gave me pause to recognize that I needed to ask for the prudence to not be sucked into all of it again. It reminded me that I have some power in this whole process and that power is to speak on behalf of the Gospel, refute disinformation and truly (and this is the hard part) truly try to love my neighbor as myself.

So how do I do I love my neighbor in this situation? Well, I try to listen, I try to respect and honor that we may not share a worldview but we do care about one another and that is a starting point. I try to remember that even if I am right, even if I have the facts, even if the faults listed are grievous, that we all have idols and that can be a hard thing to recognize. Especially in ourselves.

So, I am looking at our Father and I am leaning on God. I putting my little box of worries at the foot of the cross and I am using that prayer that has served me so well for so many years, “May the love of Jesus Christ enter my heart for___________.”

I want to be transformed.