NOW

Now, that the shock and initial grief reactions are over...
Now, that the disappointment in people is passing...
Now, that the disillusionment with government is setting in even more strongly...
Now, that the issues manipulated to create fear in people are silent again...
Now, that the threats to undo any good done in the last six years are growing...
Now, that legislation to benefit the few, wealthy on the backs of the rest of us have resumed...
Now, that there is little chance of compassionate care for our most vulnerable...
Now, that there is little hope of living wages, healthcare, safe environment, justice...
Now, that the country will more quickly be on the return track to THEIR "gilded age"...
Now, that it's too late to talk about voting, as we MISSED that opportunity for change at the polls...

NOW is the time to write, speak, protest, demonstrate and ACT...
NOW... it will be harder, now that we did not vote or vote for the sake of the people...
NOW... it will be uglier, because we chose not to do it the civil way at the polls...
NOW... it will bring more strife, more pain, more loss before justice comes...
NOW... it will be met with violent resistance...

but NOW, it must be done.

There are TOO MANY PEOPLE whose lives are at stake NOW, for us to continue, out of complacency, apathy or contempt, to remain silent in the face of injustice, inequity, inequality, corruptions of greed, abuses of power and the hatred out of fear that brings them.

NOW we must act.  NOW.  For their sake...
Agape Love demands it.  Jesus commanded it.  NOW.

Pastor Jamie