Dumpster diving
Dumpster living
Dumpster striving
Dumpster giving
Dumpster follow
Dumpster thinking
Dumpster wallow
Dumpster stinking
Dumpster culture
Dumpster habits
Dumpster vulture
Dumpster rabbits
Dumpster eyes
Dumpster feet
Dumpster hands
Dumpster seat
Dumpster climb
Dumpster jump
Dumpster scurry
Dumpster trump
Dumpster go
Dumpster flee
Dumpster know
Dumpster free
Whispered inclination
Vulnerable heart
Zombie mind
Phantom will
Trap is laid, snare is set
Unsuspecting feet
Hidden hands, lurking darkness
Brief, mercurial susurration
Silence
The deed is done
Lucid golden aspirations
Lilting silver snowflake dreams
Bloodstains of a slivered conscience
Lust and greed arrest heart screams
Steel trap snap
Asphyxiating soul
Clawing, clutching, clinging–
Closing…
Inner death, outer life
Along for the ride
Jump on the bandwagon
Follow the crowd:
Easy
Drift with the undertow
Blow with the hurricane
Move with the earthquake:
Easy
Anchor in the storm
Salmon in the river
Body in the quicksand:
Hard
Road less traveled
Lure not taken
Following conscience:
CHARACTER
Don’t turn your back
Don’t close your ears
Listen and learn
Alleviate your fears
Some have gone before
Been there, done that
Let them be your buffer
More than idle chat
Experience instructs
Wisdom charts a course
Follow their lead
Avoid the need for force
Submission leads to beauty
Despise leads to decay
Enslave yourself to wisdom
Free your heart to obey
~ Inspired by Proverbs 1:8-9
Hey God, Jeremy here.
Yes, my child.
I have a question about the presidential election.
Yes?
Why is it that one candidate gets investigated to the teeth about a very intimate family situation, and the other candidate does not even get investigated to the shoelaces about certain questionable mentoring associations?
Good question.
Do you have an answer?
I do, but you cannot bear it at this time.
What can you tell me then?
Let’s go back to the Bible. Do you recall what I said about how I treat people?
You said that you aren’t a respecter of persons. Another translation says that you show no partiality. In other words, you have no favorites.
I have no favorites, and I don’t play favorites.
But what about people who know you versus people who don’t know you? Don’t you favor those who obey you and disfavor those who disobey you?
Now you’re starting to understand the clash between impartiality and justice. While I do favor and bless those who obey me, and disfavor and bring guilt upon those who disobey me, my justice demands I treat everybody as they deserve. My impartiality demands I treat everybody equally.
How is that possible?
My ways are above your ways and my thoughts are above your thoughts. Your thoughts are on the earth, and my thoughts come straight from the throne room of heaven. I don’t expect you to understand. I only expect you to bow down and worship me.
I love to worship you! But how does the fact that you are not a respecter of persons tie into the situation with the presidential candidates?
See how frustrating favoritism is? When it comes to modern American politics, impartiality is a concept of the past. America is divided because the majority of Americans operate according to partiality, without regard for objective truth.
And a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.
Exactly. And a partial media makes it all the more difficult to discern and determine objective truth about each candidate.
I feel as if we are standing on the brink of a national collapse. Collectively we have all finally arrived at the proverbial cliff of stability, and are just waiting for a cataclysmic earthquake to shake the ground from under us. I fear the election of the wrong candidate will make the tenuous needle of the Richter scale jump off the charts.
No need to fear, my child. Just trust.
Okay…
The core of your faulty thinking is placing too much emphasis on the cause-and-effect relationship of candidates to the future of America. It’s what the media wants you to believe. Now, this thinking would be true if you lived in a monarchy, and everything the king said was law, as in the time of King David. Your democracy has been set up with checks and balances to prevent any one person or party or branch of government from gaining or wielding too much power.
That’s not exactly a comforting thought.
More importantly, nothing ever escapes my hand. Do you trust me?
Of course I do. I trust you with my life, my marriage, my finances, my home, my future.
Then you can also trust me with America. Remember the book of Isaiah: the nations are little more than a drop in the bucket to me. And I’m the one that squeezes the sponge.
Do you think maybe you could also squeeze some objective truth out so the American public can truly understand the gravity of this election? It would give me much peace of mind to have the truth about each candidate revealed for all the world to see.
Silence
You still there?
Silence
God?
Silence
What about the actual presidential election? We didn’t even get to discuss those things yet. What am I supposed to do about that?
Come and see, my child.
