Fortune cookies may have more to do with voting than they do with China. I remember when our kids were small and a well meaning gentleman at a church banquet brought our Third-Culture-Kids-from-China some fortune cookies and said, “You kids know what these are.” Robbie, all of 6, looked at me and quietly mouthed, “What are they?” In all their years growing up in Asia, they never saw one fortune cookie.
The other night at our favorite Chinese restaurant (“Lin’s China Jade”) my fortune read “You will have a stable income in your future”. So be it!
Voting is like trying to forecast a country’s or district’s future. I much prefer to vote two years after the election when I can better determine how things will turn out. I guess I don’t have that option. Still I find myself once again struggling to sort out everything from President of the USA to Measure 54 amending the state constitution standardizing “voting eligibility for school board and other state and local elections”.
In a link I’ve provided you on the home page, my pastor, Ray Noah, offers some helpful points about valuing God’s agenda over your party’s platform or candidate:
- Speak for the innocent, weak and vulnerable
- Defend the poor and oppressed
- Confront sin and moral decay
- Work toward the peace and prosperity of Jerusalem
- Pray for political conditions conducive to the salvation of the lost.
On my own home page, I’ve listed a few resources I’ve found helpful in sifting through the voting choices. In the end, I'm glad my future doesn’t totally depend on this election or that fortune cookie!
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Wed, October 15, 2008
by Howard Kenyon