I didn't vote in the election.  For many reasons, although those reasons are not here important.  Suffice it to say I don't know for certain who I would have voted for had I voted.  But one thing stands out to me.

The day after the election has been far more aggravating than the week leading up to it.

My Republican friends are in a state of complete and utter shock, anger, and depression.  Inappropriate and angry things are being said left and right.

And, I'm not gonna lie, it's starting to make me more than a little annoyed.  First it was funny to observe.  But that's wearing off.  And now, as I read and am depressed by all of my friends' ignorant comments and selfish fear, all I find myself thinking is this:

How would these people have responded had Romney won?  Elation?  Thanking God?  Confident hope that God has blessed America?  Because here's the thing...we're called to thank God in all circumstances.

My friends, some of them close friends, are closing their eyes and making blind accusations not backed by evidence.  They are reacting out of fear, ignorance, and even prejudice.  I've heard/read some crazy things, and it makes my heart hurt, both for Obama and for these people who live in fear that their world is going to come crashing around their feet if we start giving poor people free medical care.

And it's, quite frankly, not okay.

For those of us who call ourselves Christians, our kingdom is not of this world.  America is not the best, not the only, and not really even all that important.  What is important is the Kingdom of God, a kingdom that goes beyond this nation's borders to encompass people from the entire globe.  And that's what I stand for.

I wish I had a political opinion.  I really do.  But in many ways I'm glad I don't, because I am afraid I could very easily become this very person I describe.  A person living in fear, characterized by anger and a biting tongue, putting my hope for my future in the hands of one man whose name I wrote on a ballot.

God forgive us.