Pretty much sums up how I am feeling today, and not just about the results of the presidential election. Mourning for my country. Hence, now is the best time to keep reminding myself that Jesus is Lord.
There are some potential positives, and I’ll come to those in a later post. But I’m afraid the reelection of Barack Obama will mean continued economic stagnation, continued high unemployment, a continuing weakening of the dollar, and a continued wrong-headed refusal to responsibly extract our natural energy resources. And don’t kid yourself: when the economy suffers, the poor and the vulnerable suffer the worst of it. I’m afraid his reelection will mean four more years of a weak and adrift foreign policy, inviting the continued re/growth of anti-American terrorism in places like Afghanistan and Libya, Syria and Iran. I’m afraid it means less protections for religious conscience and less support for the fundamental family structure, I’m certain that it means a strengthening of the abortion regime, including the appointment of liberal justices to the Supreme Court and liberal judges to other federal positions. I’m certain that it means that all the worst, most economy-killing aspects of Obamacare, which were shrewdly scheduled for after the election, will be enacted and ensconced in our system of government, and that the health care most Americans receive will grow worse. And I’m certain it means an even greater national debt burden — meaning that I and my children will work to fill the coffers of the Chinese communist party.
So I mourn for our country’s future, but I also mourn because I believe she has lost her way.