"Someone is going to win Tuesday and then, if trendlines that have proved reliable in the past continue, the sun will come up on Wednesday." Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Yesterday I walked through the leaves at twilight and knew that all would be well
"It's easy to get pessimistic right now. Lots of powerful forces in early-twenty-first-century America seem to be turning against us. It's good to remember, therefore, that God takes the way of particularity. Our increasingly secular cultural and political regimes have little in the way of new life in them. Cynicism and careerism disfigure many talented young people today. These are not qualities pregnant with a vital future for the West. It will be those few who are looking upward, those who havea sense of the transcendent possibilities, who will be able to lead us toward something new, something culturally alive."
- R.R. Reno (First Things, December 2016) "A closing thought: God is in charge of history. He asks us to work, to try, to pour ourselves out to make things better. But he is an actor in history also. He chastises and rescues, he intervenes in ways seen and unseen. Or chooses not to. Twenty sixteen looks to me like a chastisement. He's trying to get our attention. We have candidates we can't be proud of. We must choose among the embarrassments. What might we be doing as a nation and a people that would have earned this moment?" Peggy Noonan WSJ"So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or "science" or psychology, or what not." C.S.Lewis in Screwtape Letters
Finally - from my friend Jonathan Trotter:
God Bless America!
and Syria!
and Ghana!
and Venezuela!
and Russia!
and China!
and New Zealand!
and Germany!
and Greece!
and Somalia!
and Brazil!
and Panama!
and Afghanistan!
and Cambodia!
and Pakistan!
and Tanzania!
and Canada!
and Iran!
and Israel!
God bless the people we like and the people we don't! God bless the people who like us and the people who don't! And at the end of the day, may we all remember the astounding truth that God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.
