We have made this election into a much bigger thing than it actually is. The reality is that it was a decision that needed to be made. As with any other decision in life, there are people who are in favor of said choice, and people who are not. No matter what decision is being made, the inevitable truth remains that there will always be “winners” and “losers” and no matter what choice is made, there will never be a choice in which every single person is happy. Never.
Well. The choice has been made. For better or worse, it’s done. The election is over and we have an elected official. Now it’s time to move on. It’s time to take down the signs and banners. Time to stop with the social media propaganda. Time to move forward. Preferably with grace. If you wanted this candidate, congratulations. But continuing to endorse arrogance and condescension doesn’t get you any gains in life. You don’t get access to some special VIP club b/c you were on the winning side before it was the winning side. Likewise, if you didn’t want this candidate, it’s time to stop festering in animosity and despair. You don’t get some martyr ribbon of honor b/c you were against this outcome. Life still continues to move on. Jobs require attendance. Bills require payment. Mouths require food. The sun continues to rise and set and the days continue to tick by, regardless of how ecstatic or distressed you are. I’m not saying (to either side) not to have your feelings. You are entitled to your joy or sadness. But we have to stop letting our feelings be our guiding factor on how we move forward, and especially on how we treat the people around us.
We have GOT to stop feeling personally victimized by the people who voted differently than us. Feeling this way is the equivalent of saying the neighbor across the street voted opposite of you to personally harm YOU. And ONLY to harm you. Taking offense about someone else’s actions indicates that you feel that their action was designed to expressly harm you. If you are going to hold hate and anger in your heart toward someone with differing views as you, then you are endorsing that their views are explicitly directed at you. And likewise, you feel the way you feel specifically to hurt THEM. Trust me, you aren’t that important. Peggy Sue didn’t check a box and mentally say “well that will show (your name here)”. People voted the way they felt based on what was personal to them. As did you. Your vote did not factor in how Bob at the gas station would feel about it. So does that give Bob the right to be directly angry and hostile toward you when your choice had nothing to do with him?
Are you understanding this yet? Let me go a step deeper. You feel some type of way about ALL the people who voted opposite of you… whether you voted for the winner or the loser. You don’t even know those people. You are taking a faceless mass of human beings and lumping them into one hateful category, and deeming them this or that based on your own imagined perception of the type of people they MUST be if they voted in such a way. What on earth makes you qualified to judge a complete stranger’s character? What makes them qualified to judge yours?
It’s time for both sides of this to humble up. Whether you are ecstatic or mourning… we ALL need some humility. We need some grace. We need some Jesus. Don’t be that kid who rubs his victory in the loser’s face. And don’t be that kid that sulks b/c he lost. Be the kid who offers a handshake and a genuine “good game”. Honestly guys, look inside your heart, beyond your score keeping and bitterness and hurt… and ask yourself if more division, anger, hate, or separation is going to make things better. We are drowning in negative energy right now. The nation is suffocating under the weight of it. Stop gloating. Stop whining. Stop attacking. Stop reacting. Stop waiting for everyone else to change before you will. Stop seeing people as red or blue. As Trump or Harris. They are people. The only way we make this world better isn’t by depending on our elected politicians or government. It starts with us. Each and every single individual person. It starts by seeing people as their primary identifier (whether they acknowledge it or not)… GOD’S CHILDREN.
When you leave your home every morning, remind yourself that every person you meet is someone Jesus chose to die for. What they do with that amazing gift is between them and God. You simply have to be kind. Do what Jesus did.
Unfettered Faith 
Thoughts?