ELECTION FATIGUE

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I know it's the biggest story in America right now (except for, possibly Hurricane Sandy...and that's because those Northeasterners don't have a clue how to handle a hurricane.  Seriously, they don't even know when to have one.  When's the last time you saw a hurricane bring snow?  That's just wrong...but I digress).  Back to the ELECTION.

Are any of you suffering from what I like to call, ELECTION FATIGUE?  That point where you have been so inundated, so over-stimulated, heard so many opinions, watched so many commercials (seriously,....are there still any people sitting on the proverbial fence who need just one more commercial to help them to decide who to vote for?)

I have my opinion.  I have chosen my candidate.  I've already voted for heaven's sake.  I hope my guy wins.  However, I know a few things:

1.  If my guy loses, I will be disappointed
2.  If my guy wins, I will, at some point, be disappointed
3.  Neither candidate is the answer for America
4.  Much of America's problems are political, but politics, by it's very nature, is incapable of solving
     them.  The political process has become the problem
5.  America's greatest problem is a spiritual one.  Someone asked if I thought God had given up on
     America.  That's not the question.  The real question is:  Has America given up on God?
6.  Christians are part of the problem.  We are more politically evangelistic than spiritually evangelistic.
     I would wager that most Christians have talked more, prayed more, argued more, Facebooked more,
     forwarded more emails, put more signs on their cars and in their yards for their political choice than
     they ever thought of doing for Jesus...the REAL HOPE FOR AMERICA.

Pick your candidate.  Pick your party.  Vote.  But, please remember, whoever wins, AMERICA WILL STILL WAKE UP IN A MESS THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION...ONE THAT NEITHER CANDIDATE IS QUALIFIED TO FIX.

Oh, that after this election we would campaign for Jesus, the only one able to bring hope and change.

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