#NOTMYKINGDOM
This is my hashtag until this election is over.
This doesn’t mean I hate America. I love me a good old fashioned patriotic display (with fireworks, of course). This also doesn’t mean that I am dismissing real time issues that need to be addressed by our leaders. They are critical, urgent and often life threatening to our most vulnerable.
But we’ve been fooled. Fooled into believing that our world will eventually become beautiful and new through government, policy and judicial systems. Yes, we can and should build dams to protect the vulnerable and roads to grow an economy, but if the system has taught us anything is that every four to eight years the infrastructure is blown up. Reset. Start over. Try again in an endless two-sided war.
Yet, we are continually confused as to why there hasn’t been / won’t be a messiah riding on a blue or red horse that has come to save us from ourselves in the 200 plus years this nation has existed, or any nation on the planet for that matter. We often confess, “I am choosing the lesser of two evils.” How about we just start confessing we are choosing evil?
And the evil has become pervasive... invading our ability to hear one another, our willingness to put down petty agendas, to serve the other, to admit wrongs and recognize rights, to protect the least of these, to live beyond an unnecessary dichotomy, to see one another as carriers of Divine DNA… and engage one another as such. The loser has never been labeled Republican or Democrat. It is always us. But more so, our children and grandchildren.
The True Kingdom will never force us to choose between leaving young women destitute or killing babies.
The True Kingdom will never force us to choose between the immigrant or the citizen.
The True Kingdom will never force us to choose between caring for the sick or stewarding resources.
The True Kingdom will never force us to choose between protecting the vulnerable or celebrating leadership and success.
The True Kingdom will never force us to choose between blackness or whiteness.
The True Kingdom will never force us to choose between protectors or painful injustice.
The True Kingdom will never force us to choose between conviction or compassion.
The True Kingdom will never force us to choose between empathy or truth.
Because in The True Kingdom, there is abundance.
It will, however, force you to choose between God and country — not in opposition to one another, but which gets the final say over your heart, soul, mind and body… which kingdom gets to rule your being. It’s never too late for us, although it might be for our nation.
The question is how long will we keep this going?
