So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! James 3:5

I wanted this blog to be apolitical as possible, but the event that unfolded on January 6, 2021 makes that impossible.

How, as a Christian woman, do I process what I saw and heard from the mob of rioters who broke through barricades, broke windows, destroyed my property and roamed savagely through the Capitol complex looking for people to harm?

How do I, as a Christian woman and American citizen, deal with people who believe what was done was right and good? How do I speak about an elected leader who incites, congratulates, and honors such radical, brutal, insurrectionist behavior ?

Doesn’t the Bible tell us to beware of those who lead others astray? Isaiah 5:20 declares: “Woe to them who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness….”

The traitorous mob who vandalized the citizens’ house have descended into a darkness that they insist is light. For many years the poison has been slowly dripping into their veins, it has been dished up into their food and sprayed into the very air they breathe. Hatred is their motivating factor. Perhaps it is disguised as a loss of “rights”, but it is only blind hatred in disguise. Those of us who see this and understand must not hide ourselves and be mute.

We who are Christians must speak the truth quietly but forcefully. Our small, warm candlelight must shine as points of hope in this darkness. We must not return evil for evil. We must support our duly elected officials, but we must also hold them accountable to the oaths they took. We must not allow them, as we have allowed so many of them, to speak vile lies.

We must pray for this nation, the World’s most enduring light. We must pray that eyes be opened and ears unstopped. We must never, ever give an inch to the evil in this world. To those who are in positions of power, we must listen to their words and sift them through the sieve of Truth. No more must we allow hatred, lies, and threats of violence to silence us.

Onward, Christian soldiers, in Spirit and in Truth.

Dear Father, we are nearly broken in two by the violence and lies of the past. January 6 must be a day of remembrance and a time of renewal. Dear Jesus, we who are your lambs must find Your voice through all the noise of the violent ones. We need Your strength to respond to our Father’s voice asking “Whom shall I send?” so that we reply, “Here am I. Send me.” We stand upon Your promise, dear Lord and Savior, that you will never leave us. We depend upon Your still small voice to lead through darkness and strife into the light of freedom. Amen.