By: C. Michelle Bryant
Imagine you and your neighbor are playing with your father’s favorite train set when the boy unintentionally leans on the track and pops off one of the wheels on a cargo car. Turning around, you call out, “Dad, can you come here a minute?” “Be right there, son.” you hear from the kitchen. As Dad approaches the scene of the accident he sees the sad, ashamed, and deeply regretful young man’s face. Reaching out to the boy, he says, “It’s okay, son, it’s fixable.”
Now relate this to another catastrophe. No matter who you ask, most will agree that things have been quite tumultuous in the 2016 election primaries. Whereas, I avoid the subject of politics whenever possible I still find it ironic that election years tend to fall on leap years. It’s as if we need that extra day of pondering, preparing and prayer. As well, in the month of February we are dedicated with holidays celebrating and honoring past leader’s and their birthdays. This leap year we also prepare to select a new leader and begin a new election for our nation. As before, this seems to be an election that is bound to hold many changes during its duration, not just with policies and procedures but also with seat and cabinet vacancies that are destined to open and other positions certain to arise. It is a very crucial election and a very critical time for our nation.
So what does this have to do with trains, broken wheels and little boys? I can’t speak for everyone but for me…2 Chronicles 7:14 tells us: “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
If My people…- that is You and Me, everyone one of us needs to humbly pray and ask God to forgive our country, as a whole for the greed, hate, perversion, prejudices, and filth that we have allowed to filtrate our nation, our schools, our homes, and our lives; for the moral dysfunction we have permitted to seep into our very beings little by little, perhaps unintentionally, without even knowing it.
Please join me in a quest to save a homeland, to pray for the healing of a broken nation, one home at a home, one heart at a time, believing in our nation, our leaders and our communities. For, if we humbly ask for forgiveness and turn from our wickedness then perhaps, then and only then, our country, our nation can be saved. Perhaps then we will hear our dad say, “It’s okay, son, it’s fixable.”