“America Belches”

America belched and Donald Trump rode this bubble of discontent into the White House.

When a man eats a big meal too fast, with too much rich food, he afterwards will belch to relieve the gas pressure of all the swallowed air from eating too fast his meal.  So also, has the United States of America indulged itself and belched up Donald Trump.  We have sought expediency over truth.  We have voted for our jobs, when we should have voted for jobs for everyone.  When the bubble bursts underneath Donald T, in whom then will we find to save us?

We have allowed ourselves to forget the sacrifices made for us to give us the freedom to vote for such an illusion.  We gather on Veterans Day to honor our hero dead, who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms of life,  liberty and the pursuit of happiness for a democratic nation, but forget in the battle unto death they fought against dictators Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese nationalists under the Emperor of Japan and later communist Stalin.  Yet we elect a man just like those we battled against!  If we forget what our enemies represented in the annihilation of freedom for Europe and Asia, we have also forgotten the ideal of democratic life.  Democracy is a freedom which is earned and the right to vote for a President or other elected leaders is a privilege and a gift of our Veterans’ sacrificial blood.

To waste this precious vote on a man who dishonors all we value and hold dear is a sacrilege of the highest order for us and against those men and women in uniform who died to grant us the privilege of such a gift.

What has made America sick unto death?  What meal have we eaten to cause such a travesty of justice and truth?  Tell me if you can!  We have forgotten where we began.  We have forgotten that we fled injustice and a British crown to seek a better way of living.  We have forgotten that the way we treat one man or woman is the way we also treat ourselves.  Do we not know, have we forgotten that our Lord Jesus said, “As you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me!”

The greatness of America is not our wealth, our power, our economy nor our innovation of new products and ideas.  The greatness of America is not in our governance, nor in those we place in highest office.

No, the greatness of the United States of America is in the diversity of our people who make up this marvelous union.  It is all those who are not like us who gather here to dream as we have dreamed of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  What makes America great is the greatness of us all when we all are together, when all the tribes and races of humanity rub shoulders together and shoulder to shoulder work side by side to make this nation great.  American’s greatness is in its ability to harness the talents of some of the best and brightest from the whole world!  We are greatest when we are all great together!

Excluding minorities we do not like, or religions we do not espouse nor understand, or peoples of different pigments of skin color and uncommon speech is like eliminating some of the colors of the rainbow, or disavowing certain frequencies of sound which give us speech, or refusing to hear any sound below 1000 hertz or higher than 10000.  Are we really so stupid to believe we alone have everything?

Shortsightedness in electing such a President is a deep wound into the heart of our democracy.  We are bleeding blood; we have been wounded unto death.

I myself mourn as all poets do at the dying of the light.  I see our sun setting on the horizon and the nation of the Far East rising in our place.  I mourn, because I know what we could have been and no longer are.

It is enough now for me to begin our funeral dirge.  Bring in the bagpipes and the mournful parade and grieve for the passing of our day.

O the deep wound to our heart and our soul!  And we wonder as watch the soldier dying for the last time.  Why is he dying?  It is because we cared too little and not enough.  We did not know our one decision to gamble our democracy was our last decision.  There will not be another chance to change our minds, to redo our vote, to recover our lost hopes and dreams.

There is no hope for this President and no hope for us either.  We gambled away everything and we lost our birthright and our dream of a new world.

Sadness all around!  There is such sadness now!  I mourn the dying of the light.

Lord Jesus Christ, hear my lonely prayer.  Amen.

The Voice of one Crying in the Wilderness, “Make Straight in this Desert a Highway for our God!” through Jesus Christ our Lord! “Amen.”