Sunday, December 7, 2025

Dear God,

Political rhetoric can paralyze us, fill us with despair and make us incapable of hope.  On the other hand, faith has the power to help us overcome, break the chains that bind us and give us wings to soar, songs to sing and joy to bubble over.

Three days in a row I received new kitchen appliances.  Each deliveryman was a person of color and originated from another country.  Filled with frustration over our president and his pals' language, threats and abusive ways, I found myself apologizing to each deliverer.  "We are not all like him!  We do not all have mean spirits or mean ways.  I am so sorry you, your families and your friends have been hurt by them.  I am glad you all are here."  Smiles spread across their faces.

Sometimes we think presidents and people of power have the last word.  But that simply is not true.  Faith has the final word.  Faith gives life, hope, beauty, possibility, courage, strength and power.  Faith always trumps the vilest thing in the world.  We faith (verb) because we can and we should.  We upright everything turned upside down.  We lift up, rather than tear down.  Love always overturns hatred.  

In the darkest of days and times, faith turns on the light, sometimes just a spark and sometimes bright, bright lights shine.  I faithed today and I am singing a new song!

Thanks to you,

O God,

I can sing.

I can shine.

I can faith.

Thank you

for spiritual power

that wins

every day.

Love, Andrea