I love that we have elections. I
love the opportunity we have to vote for representatives in this country, some
of whom actually turn out to be leaders. I have seldom missed an opportunity to
exercise that voting privilege since I was 18, even when I had to hold my nose
while I voted. If you study our nation's history, you will see that
"election season" has always been, shall we say, less than civil.
Sometimes in the 1800's it was ugly and downright mean in ways that far surpass
what we see in our era of attacking another person while remaining politically
correct in our word choice.
That being said, I really dislike
the 6 solid months of posturing by men/women of power seeking the one thing
that men/women of power have always sought . . . more power. Issues are raised
and ignored, on pretenses quite often, when in reality most often it appears it
just about getting elected.
In an attempt to view this from a
theological perspective, I pose the following question for personal pondering:
Are we seeing ourselves played out before our eyes? Are we simultaneously
seeing both the image of God that is in all of humanity and the depravity of
humanity that comes from what sin has done to all of us displayed right before
our eyes in a very public manner?
