Regarding the spiritual and political state of our country, I’ve come to this conclusion. It’s pretty simple really, as most decisive things are. I just don’t want to lose my country. Or my freedom. Or my voice.

​This is from a recent Trump speech at a church. “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

​First of all, I’m not his Christian​, beautiful or otherwise.

And ​secondly, I ​WANT to vote.

​I won’t belabor the point, but freedom means we’re not owned. Freedom gives us the means to fight for our values, whether conservative or liberal. And freedom means we can voice our opinions, without fear of the military. 

Viktor Frankl said this. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” 

This is our space.