It’s Election Day in America. Tweets and Facebook posts abound, making bold declarations like “if you aren’t voting for Jane Doe for Railroad Commissioner, you don’t really love your neighbor!”
It’s easy to feel like we’re set up to fail at the ballot box before we even arrive there. Maybe we voted early. Perhaps we plan to stop by a polling place after work this evening or are consciously abstaining from participating in the midterms. Whatever our convictions, Bonnie Kristian reminds us that voting is but one element of our role as Christians in society.
“Representation frees us to spend our time on better and more needful pursuits, like caring for those in our own villages,” Kristian writes.
Today, that care may look like a 20-minute binge-reading session to pick our candidates. But the larger question is: what does it look like every other day of the year?
How can we care for the vulnerable—very often women and children—whose lives are shaped by our votes, but much more so by our ongoing participation in our communities?
May this Election Day be one that fits into a holistic lives, marked by caring for others regardless of the political cycle.
