Fresh snow last week as we walked home from Trail Life. With Kaitlyn Long

A historic moment. I'll be praying for the success of our young and fragile multi-racial democratic republic. I hope you will too.

I haven't visited here for a while, so I'll stop for a moment and explain why.
I became very disheartened when I saw people praying for a miracle over the past several weeks between that moment and inauguration day. I think if we're frank with each other, we'd recognize that means two things. First, that some of us struggled with the election outcome to the point that we openly wished for Congress to violate our Constitutional, federalist legal system to alter it, and second, for something bad to happen to the president-elect so he could be denied his duly received and God-ordained seat. I can't support either desire because neither is scriptural. We're expected to comply with the laws of our earthly nations so long as it doesn't interfere with our relationship with God (per Daniel) and we're also expected to love our neighbors.
I hope this isn't going to be a pathway for a lot of ugly in a very promising online faith community and alternative to Facebook. I hope we can all repent of our sins toward one another these past 4 years, accept our reality, and commit to doing God's scriptural, Holy Spirit-guided will going forward.

My handsome little dude, Malcolm, cheesing it up. With Kaitlyn Long