God is Where?

Okay, I won't usually do 2 posts in 1 day.  But the Keillor one was meant to be Sunday's.  Here's today's.

Carol Myers, Chillicothe, OH, explaining why she is volunteering for McCain: 

"I'm 65, and if I do one more thing in my life, it's to put God back in our country" (Washington Post, Nov. 3, 2008)

Really?  REALLY?  I didn't even know He'd left.  Granted, we no longer require tens of millions of schoolchildren to recite the Lord's Prayer blindly, without concern for whether they or their families understand or believe what they're actually saying.  But God is still here.  I know, I see Him every day.

He is in the faces of my students who try every day in spite of their obstacles.  The parents who gave up everything and risked death to come to America and build a better life.  The sun rising (or setting) over the Potomac.  The sermons I hear every Sunday.  I could go on and on - but what do I know?  I live (proudly) in liberal Arlington, VA - where supposedly we all hate God, and the Real America too.  Right....

So how come I see God every day?  The truth is: no matter what the Republican party might tell you, God is alive and well - even inside the Beltway.  And in the rest of America too.  Far more so than we could ever hope to realize.  He certainly doesn't need the endorsement of a mere political party to remain present, and relevant, in our world. 

Which leads me to wonder:  What if God was off-limits in campaigning?  What if we just let God works his wonders without all the political interference on the ground?  God is doing great things all over our country - and many in the GOP won't even give him credit for it.