I was thinking yesterday about my political views and how I have expressed them on this blog. I never wanted to be political in my blog. However, I have found myself writing about abortion, mask mandates, and the death penalty.
The strange part is that I don’t always express what is easy for myself. I have very definite views about how I think people should act, but the problem is no matter what my view are, I don’t think I have any right to impose my views on anyone else.
It goes back to free will. God is all powerful and could easily call all the armies of angels down from Heaven to make all humanity bow down before Him and do exactly as He wills. Yet, He doesn’t. In the face of unspeakable evil, God still allows us to have free will. He doesn’t force anything upon us. If I really am a woman of faith, then even if it is difficult, I have to follow His lead. I can impose my views on someone else. I can’t force someone else to believe like I do.
On all these political issues, I have very definite views and yet, there’s not a single one where I believe I should force someone to act because of my own belief. That’s a difficult pill to swallow. The only thing I can do is treat those who don’t belief the same as I do with love and understanding. I have to show them respect, kindness, and patience.
Right now in our country, the news talks about a feeling of divisiveness. I understand that feeling and I feel it myself sometimes. Yet when I think about how we are all humans created by the same deity that loves us all, then I realize that we are really walking together on side by side on the same planet just trying to live.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
