I have never read Dan’s blog until today. It was awesome. We as Christians have focused so much lately on what this person or that person believes that we have totally forgotten to search our own hearts for what we believe.

Most of you know that I teach Sunday School for nine, ten and eleven year olds. Yesterday the main topics in class were the race of the new president-elect. My black students were all excited, and the white students were disappointed. We had the discussion about how we are all created equal in the eyes of God no matter what the color of our skin is. But, the main topic was of all things…abortion

During prayer requests, which by the way, my class takes very seriously, a child brought up the fact that our new president-elect believed in killing babies and even letting babies that were born alive during an abortion die while lying on a table. I was caught completely off guard. I asked if everyone knew what an abortion was and “yes” was the unanimous answer. I tried to explain on their level, but that is very difficult to do without being graphic. So I explained to them about some of the new president-elect’s ties with various religions and how they differ from ours.

The only thing I knew to do was to show how the Bible speaks against murder, and that life begins at conception, etc. Their homework for the week is: while they are brushing their teeth every morning they are to pray that President-Elect Obama gets saved and accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of his life. And that he is not a “bad person”, but just needs Jesus in his life. And when that happens, Jesus will show him what is right.

I have to be very honest here in saying that I have always thought myself to be a non-prejudiced person. But when the election results came in last Tuesday night, I felt a little “afraid”. I felt that now “White America” would now become the minority and “Black America” was gonna retaliate. For a split second, I no longer felt that we were all in this together. It was a rude awakening of just what the black population has felt for hundreds of years.

Dan Edelen was right in his blog. If we want to change America, it has to begin in our own hearts…..How I live for and serve Jesus Christ and how I portray that to others should be my main goal.

Love and Peace to all,
Connie

Dan at Cerulean Sanctum is a very thoughtful, insightful writer. I am still occasionly going to his archives and reading his older stuff.

You should check in there when you can.

After you’ve read mine. :p

Love you all