{"id":209,"date":"2020-11-06T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2020-11-06T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:42:49","slug":"no-matter-who-wins-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/06\/no-matter-who-wins-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"No Matter Who Wins the Election&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"204\" class=\"wp-image-41\" style=\"width: 140px;float:left;margin-right:10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JackiBelile-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Jacki Belile\">So much is at stake in this election season.&nbsp; So much is at stake, and to make matters harder we have great division about WHAT is at stake.&nbsp; As I write, we do not yet know the outcome of the Presidential election, but we all know the intensity of our own and fellow citizens desires about the outcome.<br><br>My heart was warmed tonight in a devotional moment with fellow Baptist clergy, when a colleague stated firmly at the opening &#8220;No matter WHO wins the election, we are called to this time, for such a time as this.&#8221;&nbsp; His devotional on the book of Esther unpacked that it is ALWAYS &#8220;God&#8217;s time&#8221; to do right, to serve our calling, to be brave about whatever difficulties or sacrifices God calls us to, to be voices for Christ&#8217;s way of justice and peace.<br><br>I&#8217;m human, and I&#8217;m a fellow citizen. I have my set of feelings about this moment in our nation and world.&nbsp; But I pray daily for the strength and the wisdom to put it all in a higher and longer perspective.&nbsp; <strong><em>May my prayers and deeds continue to be refined, so that I might not so much get what I want as be who God wants me to be&#8230;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br><br><strong>NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION.<\/strong><br><br>In Christ&#8217;s Peace,<br>Pastor Jacki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much is at stake in this election season.&nbsp; So much is at stake, and to make matters harder we have great division about WHAT is at stake.&nbsp; As I write, we do not yet know the outcome of the Presidential election, but we all know the intensity of our own and fellow citizens desires<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/06\/no-matter-who-wins-the-election\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}