BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE
The best we can do right now is the best we can do.
We can be influencers and voices to those who help and serve us. However, we do not control the government. We can vote, and that is powerful. We can let our leadership know how we feel and that is never a waste of time.
As citizens, we can make our contributions to causes that bring about change. We can volunteer in places that make a difference. After that, it is up to those we elected. After we do and have done all we can, we have to sit back and wait and see what happens. Sometimes we approve. Sometimes we do not. And sometimes we are unsure.
In the midst of conflict and uncertainty, we should never cease praying for our president and government leaders. They need our prayers. They also need our support when we feel they are right and when we believe they are wrong. Just because we believe leadership may be wrong does not mean we withdraw our support. Usually when we feel they are wrong, they need our support more, but in a different way. That is when we say, “I support you, but you need to go at this in a different way.”
Sometimes those who lead us listen, and it seems like often they do not pay any attention to us.
Amid all that is going on in America and the world, we need to be as busy as possible going about our lives. We need to work our jobs, take care of our families, pay our bills, plant and raise our gardens and do life as best as we can. Our country and houses of faith are made up of everyday, hard-working Americans. Hard-working Americans of faith have built this country and will keep it going.
Too often, we have albatrosses hung around our necks. We’ve had Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. They were financially crippling and killed thousands of our people. We don’t want any more of that insanity, but are we bound and determined for more?
What will Venezuela bring to America? What are we getting ourselves into? And what kind of blowback is coming our way? Are we going to plunge headfirst into Iran and its problems? Here we go again placing ourselves where we do not need to be. Next, there is Greenland, Cuba and Mexico. Where will all this take us and cost us?
Let us pray for Venezuela that it can get its act together and elect its own leadership. If we can help them with their oil and benefit both countries, then that would be a win-win.
In the meantime, let us do the good things we know to do. Our communities and towns need us to carry on, even when it seems like the world is trying to fall apart.
Dr. Glenn Mollette is the author of numerous books, songs and videos. Learn more on YouTube, Amazon and Spotify. He is also the founder of Newburgh Seminary/College, Safe Fresh Water and Keep Our Freedom.