Bill’s Front Porch

I am so thankful to Dolan for cleaning up the porch.  It was a mess and I was unable to do it (I guess that’s what brothers are for).

I love the porch because it is always spring out here and that makes me feel better too.  Before I go any farther, I want to remind or inform everyone what the porch was started for.  We started to hang out on the porch because it is a place that we can go, talk about our views on things, and not worry about being condemned or criticized.  That doesn’t mean that we don’t have disagreements (there have been plenty of them on the porch up to this point), but we do it with love.  After all, that’s what a porch is for!

That being said, I am sitting here on this nice clean porch, a little discouraged after the election yesterday.  I am discouraged because I am afraid for our country.  Not because Obama has been elected, but because of us as a nation choosing some of the social issues that we chose.  I mean, I don’t know about the economic packages that both of them propose.  I didn’t vote for McCain because of the “drill here, drill now” policy.    Even the war was not the central issue to me, although I think it very important.  What was most important to me was some of the issues that, in my opinion, went directly against Biblical teachings.  It saddens me that abortion will continue to be promoted as an option for birth control.  I don’t know the numbers, but if even one child dies for convenience, it is way too many!  It saddens me that we think that the homosexual issue is debatable when the Bible clearly states that it is sin.  I don’t like the idea that someone that does not contribute might get a tax rebate when the Bible says that if you don’t work, you shouldn’t eat (paraphrased).  I am discouraged to think that hard work and good stewardship is going to be rewarded with money being taken away and given to someone else for the cause of “fairness.”

With that being said, God has reminded me that He is still in control and that my role in all of this as a believer is to pray for him constantly and to support him.  So… I will pray for my country and that God would not let us go to our own devices and I will pray for President-elect Obama that He would seek to lead in accordance with God’s word and His precepts.  I guess what I am saying is that I am now a supporter of Obama.  I may not agree with everything and I will fight when something is against Biblical principles, but I will seek to be the man that God wants me to be and pray.