Who should lead this country?

I had just stumbled through a prayer for political things. Things I really just don't know all that much about - including how God really feels about politics and our current presidential election. I sense this is an important time in our history. I sense that there is someone God has in mind and I sense that God might show up in the middle of all this and make all of us drop our jaws. I pray for that and I pray for a huge healing in our country. Still, it all seems like so much. Just when I think I understand or I think I know exactly what God would want, I find out that I don't. So needless to say it was a really ineloquent prayer. I felt kinda stupid. Words had failed me.



Just after I finished it, there was a message in my gmail inbox.

This is what it said:

I don't concern myself with matters too great or awesome for me.
But I have stilled and quieted myself, just as a small child is
quiet with its mother. Yes, like a small child is my soul within
me. O Israel, put your hope in the LORD -- now and always.

Psalms 131:1b-3


How about them apples???

O, America....Put your hope in the Lord!!


I'm laying down my thinker on this one. I'm just gonna walk with my Jesus. He doesn't need my flowery words or my input here. As hugely important and overwhelming all of this is I don't need to fret. I never do. I just need to trust and press into the One who redeems and the One who wins.


Thank you, Father!!! I know you're going to do something cool. Maybe you'll bowl over all of the candidates with your Spirit in their lives. Maybe you'll transform hearts that we'd never imagined would be transformed. It started here today with mine. It was troubled and now it is free. I'll be here with my "Go, God!" banner. And I'll wait for your direction. Let me know if I can be the water girl or bring you a towel! Your daughter, Helen



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