Its Election Night and the news keeps up a steady stream of updates as polls report their numbers, reporters and political people guess and speculate about who is winning, who has the popular vote versus electoral and I think my biggest hope is that regardless of what a person’s voting stance, we remain kind to one another.
United we stand, divided we fall. Be uniting no matter how this election turns out. Reach out in kindness to a neighbor, lend an ear to those having a hard time, drop off a meal for someone under the weather.
This year has been interesting and terrifying and draining on so many levels; having it happen on an election year is just icing on a pretty rank cupcake. But sometimes I wonder if this is actually an opportunity for us all to grow, to learn, to be tempered. There is a verse that comes to mind about how we are refined like silver, melted down in the fire, our impurities burned out so we are pure. Its hard going through tribulations and hard times, periods where you don’t know what’s coming next and what it will do to you.
When my husband and I first started trying for kids, it didn’t happen quickly. It took a year to get pregnant the first time only to lose the baby at 9 weeks gestation. It took another year… and we got pregnant. And I miscarried 9 weeks later. Those were difficult years but in the process of finding out why I miscarried, it revealed more about my own health, both related to carrying to term and longer lasting issues that I will need to be aware of the rest of my life. We were able to make adjustments based on what we learned and finally brought our first born home the following year. If I had not gone through those first two losses, who’s to say I wouldn’t have pushed so hard for answers that revealed so much more about me than I had thought.
Sometimes going through the fire helps shape us into something stronger, something more than who we were yesterday. Maybe the aftermath of this election will do the same, but I hope we will all come out the other side with more kindness, more compassion, and more understanding of who we are at our core.
Stay green, my friends.
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