Give us this day our daily bread...

Election day. I won't even apologize for missing the past two days. We have slow forwarded to this day. This day. This day? Oh Lord, this day? It feels like a 9/11 event. CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, MSNBC - all media have participated in creating a doomsday atmosphere. As if. As if the world will end with either candidate. Both majors parties are culpable. If we don't vote for their candidate, we will not recognize our beloved country in the years ahead, they say.

That may be. We are broken. We need change. Was it Glennon Doyle Melton that said 'we are all broken. But that is how the light gets in? Through the cracks.' (Something like that, anyway.)***

I will quote another of my favorite authors, Anne Voskamp, "Because eucharisteo is how Jesus, at the Last Supper, showed us to transfigure all things - take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into joy that fulfills all emptiness." Perhaps this day, this moment is our eucharisteo. Our moment to take this painful process, give thanks for it, and work harder to transform our country/community into one that fills the emptiness of those around us.

Please dear God, do not forsake this nation. We need You. I thank you for this great nation that we live in. I thank you for our democracy. I pray for your transforming love to soften the heart of whichever candidate is elected. Lead them in your Way.
Amen.

***Leonard Cohen, actually. "Ring the bells that still can ring/ Forget your perfect offering/ there is a crack in everything/ that's how the light gets in." Thank you, Daughter, for this information.