Crying Wolf

You’ve been telling me my whole life 

That this is the worst it’s ever been

That it isn’t going to last much longer 

That this is the end 

And so I accepted that I wouldn’t grow up 

I counted Daniel days and prayed that I’d get kissed before Jesus came back 

I’m grown up now

And when I hear you say that it’s a state of emergency 

Again 

I try not to roll my eyes 

It is the oldest play in the book:

Convince them that there is an enemy out to get them 

Convince them that the ends justify the means 

Convince them that they are the victim 

And you are the only one holding the enemy back 

I went to another country 

One whose government is actually quite worse than ours 

Yet the world didn’t end

Nothing fell apart 

It felt broken and hard and yet God still shone through 

I want to throw my hands in the air and say 

Maybe the very thing you fear- the proverbial “them” winning the election-

Is the very thing we as Christians need to open our eyes 

You are fighting so hard 

For what? 

You hold on so tightly and make so many excuses around the clearly wrong behavior 

For what? 

For God’s will to be done? Are you sure that is His will? 

I watched you as a child 

I believed you when you said Bill Clinton’s actions made him an unfit president 

And now my mouth drops open in horror at what you accept from a man in a red hat 

I am not asking you to agree with me 

I am asking you to uphold your own past standards