A national election is upon us. Friends, family and neighbors disagree.

The results can be disputed. What times we live in. Between the emphasis and the votes, it is difficult to find our way towards an era of hope, of peace.

Wonder what happens after November 5? To the person of faith, this looks a lot like November 4th. Pray. Love. Trust.

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Pray. Maybe you don’t know how to pray. Everything seems so confusing, so angry, so exhausting. Here are two topics you might consider for your conversations with God.

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Let’s lift up our nation. We are a family with a lot of shared history and an important future. Ask God to humble us, hear us, and heal us. This may seem futile, but remember: the power is not in the one who prays, but in the God who hears.

And ask God to help our neighbors, and that help begins with us. Pray for compassion to extend to the single mother across the hall at work and to the one locked away in the nursing home. Pray for hope for those still recovering from the storms – may these storms be named after Helene or Miltonor divorce or chronic illness. May God bring his balm of hope.

And pray for neighbors you disagree with. Yes, even the ones that drive you crazy. The quickest way to put out the fire of anger is with a prayer bucket. Rather than blaming, pray. Jesus did this. Hanging on the cross, he intercedes for his enemies: “Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34 MSG).

We are never more like Jesus than when we pray for others – those with whom we agree and those with whom we disagree. Pray for this suffering world. God cares about everything.

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Love. However, love is not exactly the order of the day. The protest, yes. Anxiety, for sure. Fear, our constant companion. But love seems to be lacking.

Let’s check our source. This restless world is not the place to turn to find steadfast love. Instead, let us turn our gaze to a merciful God whose love will never fail. Governments will fail, but God’s love will last. Crowns are temporary, but love is forever. Your money will run out, but his love never will.

Let God love you. And let it help you share that love with others. Pause right now and make a list of three people you can show your love to today – quietly, simply and unconditionally. I promise you that this offering of love will come back to you unexpectedly and the hope in your heart will rise like the morning sun.

And finally, trust. It’s hard, I know. So many unknowns and the things we do know are worrying. We are going through troubled times with challenges both at home and abroad. Leadership matters. But whether or not your preferred candidate occupies the White House, we can know that God decides who is in charge. Proverbs declares that the heart of a king is like a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he directs it wherever he pleases (Proverbs 21:1).

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May I suggest that we look up and change our thoughts? We can face the problems of this world by focusing on the promises of our neighbor. The future isn’t as scary if you know it. And you can know the future when you know who controls it.

One of my favorite sermon picture books contains the story of a missionary and his son. They left England for central Africa with four other adults. Three of them died. The father’s health began to deteriorate, so he resolved to return to England.

He and his boy traveled across Africa for days in an old broken down wagon. Arriving at the coast, they embarked by sea for England. Within hours, they were faced with a violent storm. The waves and wind combined to produce the sound of cannon fire and rock the ship from bow to stern. During a lull in the storm, the father held and warmed his son.

Then the boy asked, “Father, when will we have a house that will not shake?”

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I can’t vouch for the story. The book provides no sources. But I can most certainly answer the question. I asked for it. You asked for it. Everyone has felt this world with its troubles and tremors and asked themselves: “God, when will we have a house that will not shake?”

His response? “Soon, dear child. Very soon.”

This world, so upside downwill be right side up. People who have been rejected in this life will be respected in the next. At that time, they were enslaved and sold; in the next they will rule and reign. At that time, they were disabled and sick; in the next they will serve with perfected and glorified bodies.

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It looks like heaven. This seems like the perfect ending. This feels like the grand conclusion to God’s story.

We can pray, we can love and we can trust, my friend. What God says will happen, it will happen.

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