what do you do when leaders disappoint?
run and hide?
turn the other cheek?
stand up for something different?
does it matter?
is wanting humility from them
an apology for the things they got wrong,
an admittance that they took missteps,
an allegience to do better next time
is that asking too much?
Hmmm… well, this is some writing I would prefer to squirm my way out of. It’s not all Bush’s fault that I don’t want to write about him. I think he probably does what most of us do when he goes to work in the morning: I think he tries to do his best and act out of positive intention. I believe that.
But I feel failed. I feel failed mostly because of the war and how it has been carried out.
I also feel failed by the evangelical church, by the way we have been quick to endorse a leader as God’s choice. I think this is our own misstep, one we should admit. I think we need to be cautious about calling a politician God’s plan to save the world. God had a plan to save the world. And it was political. And things got ugly. And in the end God laid down his life for grace and peace. A stark contrast to protective power that looks out for number one first.
My hope and prayer for Bush is that he be teachable and humble, that he walk in forgiveness, that he love his enemy. My hope and prayer for this next chapter of politics in America, the one that is being written right now, is that we will revise past mistakes. That we will error on the side of grace and peace. That we will trust that God’s plan to save the world is you and me.
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