Whether you believe it or you don't. You have done all that you can to positively influence the 2024 general election. You've left it all on the field.
To expend the utmost of one's energy and effort, typically while playing a sport.
At this moment, the night before the last day to vote in this election, you may need a good night's sleep.
You may need to unburden yourself of election anxiety.
Perhaps the best thing might be to Let It Go.
When I was 22, I set out on a hitchhiking adventure. I had lived for half a year in Los Angeles, working full-time in the telecommunication technical field I trained in while in the Air Force. Like many young adults, I knew too little of what I wanted to know. I won't bore you with the long story.
However, I believed God would provide. In this case, safe rides from Los Angeles to Gunnison, CO.
To get that to take place, I had to do something. Namely, stand along side highways with my backpack and sleeping bag while sticking my right arm out and my right thumb. The trip was eventful. It was summer in the desert, no less. One long ride was on the back of a motorcycle across I-40 in California and Arizona. The daytime was VERY hot. Once the sun set... the ambient temperature dropped precipitously. Staying awake, thus not falling off the bike, wasn't easy. The gracious bike rider got me as far as Gallup, NM.
Automobile traffic was pretty slow going north from there. I spent a night sleeping alongside the road just outside of Durango, CO. By morning, I was getting anxious because I was on a deadline to get to Gunnison. I kept thinking I was doing what I was supposed to be doing.
After about two hours with my thumb out, I felt like I had hit an emotional and mental wall and finally said to myself, and to God, "I give up!"
Within a few short minutes, I got a ride to Grand Junction. The next ride, east to Gunnison, came along very quickly.
That was how I learned, roughly 50 years ago, to Let GO and Let God.
Of course, life since then hasn't been a bowl of cherries. Nevertheless, this was an important life lesson for me.
So, when I encourage people to Let it GO, it means something to me, whether it does for a reader or listener or not.
So, regardless of any possible Disney Corp motive for the animated movie Frozen, (which I've never watched anyway), I have listened to women and girls sing the theme song a few times. It's a good message for emotional intelligence nevertheless.
Many of you, like me, have left it all on the field. Staying focused is all we can do now... and let it go.
One catch. Staying focused only gives you peace and control over what you have a right to control, which is yourself.
IF what happens tomorrow and in the run-up to the next (peaceful) transition of power in Washington, DC on January 20, 2025 differs from what we want and hopefully expect, that will not be the end of the story.
As Yale historian Timothy Snyder teaches, we do NOT obey in anticipation of what an autocrat MIGHT command. We are citizens tonight and we will still be citizens, not subjects of a despotic ruler, after tomorrow.
We will still have citizenship responsibilities even if loser Donald's coup d'etat succeeds. I will blog about those if the need arises. At minimum, we will NOT be silenced.
The Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, a prime mover (besides Trump) of Project 2025 quietly, but boldly declared a revolution in the event Trump wins. If that happens, we will NOT be silenced.
Consider what happened after Project 2025 (WaPo gift article) began to attract unwanted attention. People spoke UP and OUT. Heritage and Trump backed away from the project.
We will NOT be silenced.
