Did YOU Vote?

Well, it’s Election Day again. (Do you remember Green Acres? This is about the time when the fife and drum core begin playing in the background) And once again, I have grown tired of the rhetoric and mudslinging that inevitably takes place the days, weeks, and months leading up to this day (and this year it seems to have been amped up here in Sesser). I’ll be honest, I am afraid our election process has failed us. I am not sure any amount of praising or cursing a candidate will move someone to vote. It seems to me there’s a percentage of people who will engage in the process, believing voting is a God-given right and responsibility, while others will not be moved for any reason. Much like church or many other civic organizations: the few who connect do all the work. A sign of the times? Definitely. Might it be corrected? Hopefully, but I do not have the answers. What I do know is that complacency and apathy are tools of the devil that will destroy us if we allow it. That is the operative statement here…“if we allow it.” We have the choice to engage in the process, every process whether civic, educational, or religious, equipping those processes to work for our benefit and for the glory of God…or we can sit and complain.