Who Are These Men Boehner and McConnell?

We all live our lives inside the story of America.  There are a lot of smaller stories inside of that big story.  That big story of freedom granted by our creator.

Over the last several years the story has begun to change.  As the new story begins to develop its plot-line and its characters we see that just like in most story lines there are two sides of the coin.  In our original story one side of the coin said freedom and the other side said personal responsibility.  Personal responsibility not only for yourself but for your neighbor.  You see you are supposed to love your neighbor as yourself.  Now in the new story you are supposed to let someone else love your neighbor for you.  We all collectively decide how to spend the sweat and toil of another. This coin has two sides too.  One side says that government is good and it can be trusted to make every compassionate decision and we let this government arbitrate morality for us in what it calls political correctness.  The other side of the coin says that this political correctness is a false logic that holds together a coalition of deluded followers in a suicide pact with false guarantees and twisted words that used to be called lies.

And now we find these two small men and we wonder where they might fit into the stories we find in our lives.  In the story where there was a bully we see these two over at the side holding coats, just like Paul held the coats of the men who stoned Stephen.  In another story, the story where the mob is dominating the scene they are the police who know but are silent.  In the mystery story they are the witnesses who saw what happened but did not come forward.  In the story of the city these two are the people who saw the mugging and walked on by while it happened.  In all of these stories, small men stood by believing that they were not the evil.  They also believed that they were too small, not strong enough to make a difference.  They did not realize that they could have called upon the mighty God who wrote the laws of morality and gives strength to His purpose.  These small men, always seeking significance but always falling short because fate never put them in a circumstance where they were strong.  If only.  If only they had known that they were strong enough to win the good and that all of their hurt was a small consequence.

Here we are, in a big story, standing behind small men.  Small men who said the right thing to convince us that they were the ones to lead, they had served their time.

I would never claim the torment of Job but perhaps the lesson he learned is appropriate.  The lesson that there is a story bigger than that of America, the story of grace.  A story that says everything works for the good of those who believe.  So we ask, where is the good here?  One good thing is the lesson.  The lesson we have learned  that these two men and others are not ready to lead and should stand aside.  In my opinion they should be removed from their position of power and recalled from office as soon as possible.  We do not need short sighted, self serving, closet liberals who believe that after a symbolic vote we must surrender our principals and our freedom.  Time for new leadership that carries the old story.

So here we find ourselves in the story. Time to look at ourselves to see what we are made of and where we fit into the story of America and in the story of freedom through grace.  Will we too stand by while the United States slips into bankruptcy and ruin.  Will we say the words that need to be said.  Will we do what needs to be done regardless of the consequence.  There are still legal remedies.  Are we ready to make sure that the story of freedom stays alive.