I have ranted too much

I know I get angry about politics. And I should not. It is not in our power.

Oh, it is important to vote, of course. Too many have sacrificed too much for us not to exercise this freedom. But one vote in millions is a small voice in a big sea.

We do not, however, rate so insignificantly with God. He takes an interest in us that is intimate and personal. He knows us one by one, not as a huge mass of voters. God does not run for elections. He already knows what we need. He is like a Father, which is why we call Him that. And we are small children, whom He loves dearly.

And it is as small children we should come to Him. We have no power in this world. We are like willow leaves that fall on the waves - we are tossed around, with no way to control where we go.

But God scoops us up from the water, loves us, and gives us the narrow gate; the way home. When the Christians say, "There is no other name in Heaven by which we are saved" (paraphrase of Acts 4:12) it is a simple recognition of the fact that we are frail shadows on creation's doorstep: God takes what little we are, nourishes it, and makes us fully alive.

We have no hope without Him. That great God who created everything - the stars, the distant worlds, the beautiful nebula we see only in telescopes, the swirling clouds of hydrogen - that same God looks on us lowly small humans with love and pity, and makes all that we hope for, and all that we dare not hope for... he makes it all come to be.

That is why God deserves our love. Not our ranting. Sorry, God. :-)