I am not a Democrat.
I am not a Republican.
I am God's creation,
Created to grow, to learn, to love, to share, to think, to believe.
I grew up not even knowing what a Democrat or Republican was.
I learned to see the best in people.
I loved both the underdogs and the champions.
I shared with people who did not look just like me.
I came to think as my parents did and then to think for myself.
I came to believe that goodness and mercy would follow me all the days of my life.
I am not a Democrat.
I am not a Republican.
I am God's creation,
Created to search, to question, to explore, to fear, to believe.
I searched for the truth among friends, among antagonists, in books, in stories, in experiences.
I questioned the truth that had been spoon-fed to me, a truth of black and white.
I explored to find answers, not from one source but from several.
I feared the truth when I found it because it did not look the same as it had.
Yet, I believed because fear pushed me to see beyond.
I am not a Democrat.
I am not a Republican.
I am God's creation,
Created to be who I need to be in order to make the world better.
I choose to make the world better by calling out those who would purposefully bring division upon us, who sit back and see us turn on each other, and delight in the aftermath.
I choose to make the world better by calling out those who say they are public servants but who are instead self-serving.
I choose to make the world better by listening and responding with knowledge born of truth, not of lies.
I choose to make the world a better place by caring, when what I really want to do is run away and hide.
I am not a Democrat.
I am not a Republican.
I am God's creation.
I am God's.
And right now, in this moment, in this climate of divisiveness,
the only thing keeping me sane is knowing that the same God who made me also created both the man I do not like and the child crying herself to sleep.
I choose to make the world a better place by praying........for him, for her, for all of us.
