The Results of the Election of 2016

           

         My heart is being pulled at in all directions because I can see every bit of people's worries and sides. It really does upset me and just makes me sad. I think that I have learned a lot in this election then all the other years combine. Prayers still need to be going up for our nation and people really need to care and learn about what is going on in the world. Leaving in a cultural city really doesn't help either because I have friends and friends of friends that this election can have an impact on. I've just never been as worried or sad with an election then I am this year. Not to mention I think a lot about my future and the children I will have, God willing, in the years to come. When I think about that, I don't want to have children in the next 4 years either way. I could put other thoughts on here but that is getting too political for me. 

         I'm not trying to get all political here but if you know me, you know my heart. Just seeing the comments and things on my Facebook feed at 5:30 in the morning hurts my heart. I do care about the people around me, my family, and others. Just because I did vote doesn't mean I hate certain races of people, I can't. I have every ethic group in my family and I care and love each one of them so don't judge me like that. I was and still am thinking about my family and how Blessed I am to have 2 different nations present and even different beliefs present too. I get to have all of the experience some hard and some not so hard. Again, it goes back to something like, yes, for myself, I want to marry a county man but I love my brothers in law and nephews and nieces just as much. They will come before my future husband. He will either have to like them or be nice to them. Get what I am saying? 

        I hate seeing the divide all over Facebook already. It is just depressing and makes my heart sad. If it is a divide over Facebook, think about what it will be like in the years to come. We live for the freedom and people who fought for us, not for who is in office now. Canada might be better but just think how much we are blessed here. Just think that even if it does go down, it will be like any other nation in the world. Poor, heartless, people having to survive on very little and so on. 

       I am having anxiety about this election today. That is why I had to keep sleeping this morning. After writing this, I couldn't take it anymore. I let my feelings out on here, then I went to sleep. I get up from my nap again and see the same old thing of my Facebook page. I'll be glad when I am at work taking care of children for four hours. That is sure a break for me. It feels like I am trapped right now and can't share what I'm feeling like everything I else in my life. I'm still having this tug at my heart when I read everything, good and bad. Like now, I am starting to shake just thinking and writing about it. I have never felt like this during any other election in my life. 

       We are blessed rather we realize it or not right now! Just to let people know I would say this any other way with the election. I've been scared and still am of this election. This is the worse one to talk about so knowing me and conflict I stayed away from it for a long time but now I am saying something about it because folks we need to get real here and now. We need to pray for this country because as of now we all know the devil can get ahold of it easily with everything going on and it isn't the president's fault whether Tump or Obama or Hilary. It more I think of the things that we got so use to much less I am writing on one now but still. Look around where is the Love when our little children are playing anything they want on their phones and iPads without their parents watching them. Some children don't have any parents at all and don't even get me started on that. That is a whole other subject for me. 

       Love needs to look past who we vote for and really get into seeing how blessed we are no matter our races or differences. Love needs to be more talked about then anything in this world right now. Along with respect, responablity, and all of the above. As a nation, we have lost the personality things that really matter. It won't have to have the right person in office if we don't have anything else in place either. To me, if you really love the people around you, it won't change you love for them because you have known and been with them longer then any president and will be with them long after they leave office. It is not the president that has all of the control it is God and His People that can change the world. Why do we put so much hope in one single and sinful human being like the rest of us? Yes, I am taking a Biblical stand on these 3 things and I know there is more but I don't have time to write them all down. These are the three things I think are the most important right now. Here are just some thoughts to leave you with for today: 

         1. We are called to love. Regardless of faith, race, gender, political leanings, or how others treat us; we are to respect their views, respect their choices, and respect them as a human being. John 13:34-35

         2. God is in control. He is sovereign over the whole universe. We may never know why Donald Trump was elected president, but I know this: God's plans are perfect - even if they don't seem to be. No matter what the next 4 years hold, God is still on His throne. As believers, we need to trust Him. We need to call on His name in fervent prayer. We need to acknowledge His grace and mercies in our everyday lives. We need to pray for each other. Psalm 47:8-9, Hebrews 13

         3. Donald Trump is a sinful human being who is in need of God's grace just as much as the rest of us. This does not excuse his words and actions by any means, but it does mean we are to pray for him and to love him. He is the leader of our country and to give him respect as a leader. 1 Timothy 2:1-7

        I found this quote yesterday on Pinterest and kept it for me because of a personal situation I am going through right now and have been for awhile but it goes with the election too. It is: "If you are praying about it, God is working on it."