Advent and Post-Election Questions
by Elouise
The votes are cast; the election is over. I feel lost. Not because of changes in me, but in my context. Who am I now? Which way will I go? What about tomorrow?
I want to plead with God for a different outcome. But heaven is silent. The votes were cast, and the election is over.
Advent puts a further spin on this for me. We still live in darkness, longing for Light. Longing for salvation from ourselves and from others who think they know best.
Our country didn’t get here overnight, and the problem isn’t just one person or certain groups of people. It’s all of us together. It doesn’t matter whether we understand exactly how it happened.
It’s upon us. Cowardice and contempt won’t make things better. Neither will apathy or hunkering down into my small world, pretending everything is going to work out just fine.
It already isn’t working out just fine. And there’s no such thing as my small world. Things haven’t been working out just fine since the beginning of human history.
This is God’s world, not mine. God alone is the Boss. Though not, I believe, the bossy type or the author of confusion.
You’re not in charge and I’m not in charge. That leaves God, who isn’t prone to swooping down in a space ship to rescue us from our collective folly. Instead, God sends a tiny Light into our human confusion and offers us another way.
Advent invites me to hand my disorientation and lack of peace over to the True Boss. The issue of the day isn’t who’s in political power or has the most influence. It’s whether I trust God and keep my eyes on the true Light of the world.
God offers us a spirit of power, love and a sound mind. Not because we’re God’s favorite children, but because we’re God’s beloved children. Often lost, sometimes found, always in God’s eye.
I can’t save myself from what’s coming next. I can, however, count on God to show me the way, one small step at a time. Then it’s up to me to take it. Not reluctantly, but with power, love and a sound mind.
© Elouise Renich Fraser, 17 December 2016
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Telling the Truth 
“I can, however, count on God to show me the way, one small step at a time. Then it’s up to me to take it. Not reluctantly, but with power, love and a sound mind.”
Yes, I know just how you feel. I’m taking those daily small steps, one at a time, too. ❤
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Yes! It’s the only way that makes sense for me. Better yet, when I do this instead of trying to solve the ‘problem’ I can’t even name, I know I’m not alone.
Cheers! 🙂
Elouise
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Yes, indeed. Eventually, people power will out.
I can’t help thinking that the extremes of the current moment are a sign of positive change. In that extremes fight to hold on, just when they are most obviously being gradually taken over by a different way. D’you know what I mean?
((xx))
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Yes, I think I do. Signs of a dying breed/s–whose numbers and ability to carry out their programs are less impressive than their rhetoric? Perhaps they’ve had their day, and what we see is the agony of the ‘obvious’ finally having to deal with reality. I would like to hope so.
This planet is in distress. We’ve come to a point of no return, with collateral damage all over the place. Sea changes have happened before–at great cost. What we celebrate at Christmas and Easter is a case in point. Thanks for your comment. I do believe people power is often far more effective than we realize. Also energizing in the midst of a deeply disturbing season.
Love and hugs across the ocean! 🙂
Elouise
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I can’t save myself from what’s coming next. I can, however, count on God to show me the way, one small step at a time. Then it’s up to me to take it. Not reluctantly, but with power, love and a sound mind.
This sums it all up…it’s all that matters…higher powers and belief…peace and love…been busy working so a bit behind ❤ sending love and hugs to you and Super L ❤
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Lucy likes Super L. 🙂 Which is probably the opposite of what you feel right now after who knows how many hours of cheery cheer! Thanks so much for the comment and the love.
Elouise 🙂
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Yes, Super L she is, today is last day of 10 out of 11, no food today though, some kind of healing balm/lotion….I’m great at healing….haha….magical that way but last night sold out again the product I was selling…woohooo….two people told me I was a great saleswoman….I was happy. Have a magical day my friend…. ❤
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I love how you tie this all together with advent. Beautiful!
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Thanks for this beautiful comment!
Elouise 🙂
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This is reassuring at a time when spirits and hope and faith are all declining because of what is going on.
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Thanks so much for leaving this comment. I just reread the post, and have to say I need daily reassurance that my hope and faith aren’t based on what’s going on around me. Not now, and not ever. I’m grateful you found this post reassuring–which is what I found your kind comment to be–reassuring. 🙂
Elouise
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