The last several months have been a time of personal growth and change for me. I have been digging myself out of a hole of pessimism for a while now. I have lived as a pessimist for a long time. Part of that is the fact that I a nerd who likes politics, and that arena is full of liars and injustice. I found that spending so much time focusing on the ills of our government and the political world was really taking its toll on my mental attitude.

As we head into an election season, I am going to be challenged to not get emotionally invested in what is happening, and just learn about the candidates I can support and vote for them. Maybe it will be easier this election, because I am not in favor of any of the candidates. It basically is going to come down to voting against Hillary, and I have to just live with that reality.

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. James 1:27/NASB

I'm going to try to stay emotionally divested from politics, and try to redirect my time, my passions, my emotions to things that are far more worthy: my marriage, my community, and trying to somehow break out of my comfort zone and really fight for God's kind of justice. I realized that I was more passionate about being a conservative that being a Christian sometimes. This is a normal pattern of American Evangelicalism, though. But I don't want to be part of the "radical Christian right", I want to be a "radical Christian".

But I'm not a radical. Not yet. But what if I were? How do I change? How do I get there?

Labels: Christian Life, Politics, Social Justice