God Politics

Yesterday and today I have been hard at work doing my best to provide quality (substitute) education to high school students at El Modena. I've been barely surviving the 8:52-1:42 work day (with a 30 minute lunch), which includes 2 hours of Planet Earth and 2 hours of down time. You're probably exhausted just reading about it. Fortunately I have internet and have been checking out anything of interest. Hotmail, espn.com, wellsfargo.com, and cnn.com. I realized that I knew a little about the upcoming presidential election, but not much, mainly who the candidates were. I was curious as to who were the front-runners and what the different candidates thought about different issues. In short, I'm pretty disappointed. It's like going to Hometown Buffet (which isn't A-grade food to begin with) and only finding water-drenched salad, re-microwaved macaroni & cheese, and stale brownies.

I was coming across issues like abortion, social security, same-sex marriage, and Iraq and not finding anyone who stood out, nor any positions that could really fix the problem. So then I asked myself, "how would I fix it?" Iraq for instance. More troops, less troops, help Iraqis protect their own country, continue to kill other humans, stop killing, leave and risk another takeover, stay and continue to see people die? Are any of those a solution.


In the brief collision of thoughts that bombarded my head, I realized there was only one solution to the mess we have made. What if instead of dropping bombs God infiltrated our hearts? What if we stopped viewing the 1% who are fighting us as the 99%? Is their a solution to fighting and hate? I started to imagine (and it has been imagined first by others) that God does not favor Americans over Iraqis, that He isn't looking at us saying, 'nice job on killing your brothers and sisters 6,000 miles away.'

One thing I can't stand is when church's start talking about politics, as if church position or formal policy will influence something. Never has the Christian faith lived and breathed like it should when it was in the White House (or any countries capital). And sorry, you're getting a piece of the "brief collision of thoughts" that filled my head.