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Jesus is King and my home is with Him.

The election did not turn out as I had hoped. Still, I can not lose hope, or get lost in fear or  anger, or disappointment in the blindness of others. After all, this simply isn't my home, my nation or my people. I'm just a person walking through this land. I am called by my King to be a light, and salt, and with His help, that is what I plan on being during my time here. Keep my eyes on Him, and my hopes on heavenly things, because I belong to the kingdom of God.

So, as a friend of a friend wrote of his choice for this day:

My goals for the day are:
1. Love God - Matthew 22:37
2. Love others - Matthew 22:39
3. Have the mind of Christ - Philippians 2:1-8

Those of you who know me know #2 will be difficult for me, and #3 will be a work in progress until I am transformed, but these are my goals!

Matthew 22:37
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.

Matthew 22:39
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Philippians 2:1-8
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name