These days, tempering my temper, few things get me riled, but yesterday’s treatment of the National Guard troops in Washington, DC made me seethe. Beneath it all is my dismay at seeing our nation’s capital looking like, no, actually, a militarized zone. But to take our husbands, fathers, sons away from their businesses, studies, and homes and force them to sleep crowded together, during COVID, and then to dismiss them to a parking garage in 38 degree weather without adequate facilities makes me angry. There, I’ve said it.
Then I read Romans 8:31 today. It says: “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” I interpreted this to be, again, as my saying for the year says, “Celebrate ’21, Everyone! God’s got this. Here’s what Susie Larson says in Blessings for Every Day”: “When we are tempted to look down in despair, may you instead look up and declare, “My God is for me, who an stand against me?” When you are tempted to whine and grumble, may you instead dance and sing. When you are tempted to gossip or be petty, may you instead pray and intercede. God wants to bless the world through you!”
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