"After the Election"

 I write this, barely two weeks into my work as Interim Pastor at Broadmoor, our nation has just completed another general election.  Joe Biden is our new president. 
Needless to say, it was a contentious election sharply exposing the divisions among us as Americans.  Unfortunately, this is no new thing for us, only more pronounced, and just as exhausting.  The whole thing drags us down and wears us out.
Not all of us voted for the winning side.  For those who did, I would pray a measure of grace, remembering that we belong to the God of love, a love which is “not boastful or rude” (1 Corinthians 13:4).  For those who didn’t, my prayer is for an equal measure of respect for the democratic process yielding this outcome. 
As we approach January’s Inauguration and changeover of administrations, it is also my prayer that we will begin to join hands as a country, setting aside our differences and finding new ways of working together.  There are so many problems facing us, Covid chief among them, and there is no way we will be able to address them unless we are united. 
With God’s help, I believe we can find this higher ground. 
 
Don