The Day After
What might it be like to be Hillary Clinton tonight?
I stand opposed to nearly every position she (and the Democrat party) takes, but in the end she is another human being like all of us. I appreciated the tone and content of her concession speech and hope that people will come together so that no one feels left out of this continuing great experiment we call America.
As much as we pray for Donald Trump to be a leader America and the world needs, I find myself sensing an urgency to pray for Hillary Clinton as well. What must it be like to have not been chosen after such a long effort to win the country's approval and confidence? She is someone used to being left. Her husband did it to her for other women. The Democratic Party did it to her when it opted for Barack Obama in 2008. Now it has happened again.
What kind of person is it who is able to regather herself after such abandonments? Regardless of how much I disagree with her worldview and policy stances, I have to respect her ability to bounce back from circumstances that could have left her despairing.
Don't we know the feeling? Jesus knew the feeling on the cross: "My God why have you forsaken me?" Perhaps real faith in God begins where our weakness is most evident: "Into Your hands I commit my spirit."
Now what will Hillary do? I pray that whatever she is feeling now, she will take it to the One who has promised, "Never will I leave you or forsake you." And I pray that Donald Trump humbles himself to admit that when he pledges "one nation under God" he understands it to mean "one nation accountable to God."
What might it be like to be Hillary Clinton tonight?
I stand opposed to nearly every position she (and the Democrat party) takes, but in the end she is another human being like all of us. I appreciated the tone and content of her concession speech and hope that people will come together so that no one feels left out of this continuing great experiment we call America.
As much as we pray for Donald Trump to be a leader America and the world needs, I find myself sensing an urgency to pray for Hillary Clinton as well. What must it be like to have not been chosen after such a long effort to win the country's approval and confidence? She is someone used to being left. Her husband did it to her for other women. The Democratic Party did it to her when it opted for Barack Obama in 2008. Now it has happened again.
What kind of person is it who is able to regather herself after such abandonments? Regardless of how much I disagree with her worldview and policy stances, I have to respect her ability to bounce back from circumstances that could have left her despairing.
Don't we know the feeling? Jesus knew the feeling on the cross: "My God why have you forsaken me?" Perhaps real faith in God begins where our weakness is most evident: "Into Your hands I commit my spirit."
Now what will Hillary do? I pray that whatever she is feeling now, she will take it to the One who has promised, "Never will I leave you or forsake you." And I pray that Donald Trump humbles himself to admit that when he pledges "one nation under God" he understands it to mean "one nation accountable to God."
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