Juxtapose

I would just like to put it out there that I think it's really lame how people just roll over and die after an election. Like, if I hear one more quotation of "The King's heart is in the hand of the Lord" I think I'm going to cry.

From either side, Demo, Repub, or the other sides that are out there, everyone from any losing side seems to just lose all their vigor and whither up like a grandma and starts getting all righteous about how we have to respect authority and let's never say a contrary thing about the newly-elect. Obviously, nobody cares what I have to say - this is all my own opinion, as we all know - but I don't know how suddenly all the issues everyone was all excited about suddenly diminish in importance. If you're into Obama, and you know his plans for the country and his ideals and morals and ethics and all of that floats your boat, being fully aware and educated on these things, then I imagine you, right now, are very happy, and you have every right to be, because this is the beauty of democracy, to vote for someone who you think will be best for your idea of what's best for the country.

However, all through the Bush years, there was a lot of turmoil. I certainly didn't agree with plenty of this administration's doings, and I'd be happy to tell you about them. As a Christian and not as a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or COnstitutionalist, I have heard many, many friends tell me, with vigor and passion, the things they disagreed with about this administration, and, again, that's okay and that's part of a nation being made up of many different people, plenty of whom will never agree with me on plenty of things. I appreciate free speech and a passion that causes people to care about what happens to their country. I, personally, care because I know, despite the many things that go on here in this country, we still are free to do and be many things that are not possible in the majority of the world, and I'm not under the impression that God has any particular interest in America over any other country and that we should just be sooooo heavenly minded that we think that if we roll over and pretend like politics don't matter, that things could never be different than they are now, for the better or for the worse.

Get your head out of heaven, live your life here on earth with some passion, some convictions about what you think is right and wrong, and stop being a pansy about it. I plan on praying for the president, supporting the president, and being active, but you won't hear me shut up and be some sheep, unimpassioned about life in general, wasting away in rays of otherworldy sunshine with no consideration for the future, for my kids's future, that they might be able to speak freely, be educated on the world and everything in it, to worship freely, to live and choose as freely as God gives free will. Don't roll over like a dead dog because you're afraid to be passionate about something - these things don't exist by chance.