On this beautiful, warm, misty winter morning we awake to a new act in the play of national politics. With the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts we will see if the dialogue reveals new plot twists, or if the script will simply continue in predictable fashion, unchanged by this new player upon the stage.
Winter sunrise
What is the State of the Union today? Who is watching the actors play their respective roles in Washington and the state houses throughout the nation? How attentive is the audience?
A rude awakening…
This morning I had a conversation that both saddened and disgusted me. Can you imagine a highly compensated, thirty-something professional, conservative in viewpoint, firm in faith, who had never heard of the Tea Parties or the White House czars?
When the person with whom I spoke related this I was astounded. I know the parties involved, both the one who shared the story and the young professional himself.
When told of the fifty (plus?) czars appointed by President Obama, he asked with sincere incredulity, “Do you mean they actually call them czars?” The only tea party he’d heard about was in Alice in Wonderland. (Okay, that is an assumption…he sure didn’t know about the grass-roots movement making headlines for nearly a year now.)
Such stories are usually considered the stuff of urban legends, interesting but probably overstated or untrue. In this case, the complete disconnect from the state of our union is completely true.
Talk about misplaced priorities…
How can a citizen be so obtuse? The young man seems to know every player in the NFL, yet nothing about the precarious state of his country. As a Christian, has he also abdicated a responsibility to his fellows?
What is the true State of our Nation? Our nation needs prayer… lots of prayer. And, there are some young “patriotic Christians” who need a good swift kick you know where.
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