An Everyday Moment with God
November 3, 2026 — Election Day
I sat down with my ballot and the voting literature, looking over the candidates and the choices before me.
And then something came to me.
GOD.
That’s who I want in charge.
So I picked up my pen and began writing GOD in the spaces provided for write-in candidates.
Yes. Really. 😂
And as I looked at my ballot, I had to laugh. Especially considering I studied Political Science.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized just how much this little moment revealed about what matters to me.
I don’t particularly care who God uses. I want what God wants. I want Him to rule. He is good, and I believe He can work through all people and all things.
Thy will be done.
Now, I can already hear the objections.
“This is serious!”
“Your vote matters!”
And yes, voting matters. Decisions made in government affect people’s lives. Laws, policies, leadership, resources. These things have consequences.
But I’ve been thinking about something else.
What happens when we spend so much energy trying to change the world through our choices at the ballot box, while neglecting the choices we make everywhere else?
We can vote for kindness and go home and treat our families terribly.
We can demand justice while withholding mercy.
We can campaign for a better world while treating our neighbors, ourselves, and the earth like trash.
And somehow, we expect the people we elect to fix what we’re unwilling to examine within ourselves.
I recognize something familiar in all this.
I’ve gone to church. I’ve gone to the polls. And I’ve still walked away unchanged.
Because showing up isn’t the same as being transformed.
I can attend a service, cast a ballot, and speak about the world I want to see. But what good are those outward expressions if they never reach my heart?
The question isn’t simply where I show up. It’s what I’m allowing God to change in me.
It Starts in the Heart
I’ve come to see something about the relationship between our inner and outer worlds.
The micro and the macro.
Our spiritual lives and our physical world.
I see the outward world as, in many ways, a manifestation of what’s happening within us.
Our thoughts, beliefs, fears, judgments, and desires influence our choices. Our choices become actions. Our actions shape our relationships. And those relationships help shape our communities, institutions, and the world we share.
The world also influences us. It’s a cycle, moving in both directions.
And sometimes, it’s a vicious one.
Fear inviting fear.
Anger inviting anger.
Judgment inviting judgment.
Each reaction feeding the next, until we’ve forgotten there might be another way.
Jesus said:
“For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” — Luke 6:45, KJV
And Paul wrote:
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” — Romans 12:2, KJV
What if we’ve been so busy trying to change the world around us that we’ve overlooked where transformation begins?
Not every hardship or injustice is a reflection of the heart of the person experiencing it. But the things we collectively cultivate within ourselves have consequences far beyond ourselves.
Our institutions don’t exist independently of humanity. They’re built, maintained, and influenced by people.
And people have hearts.
What governs us from within eventually influences how we govern ourselves together.
So perhaps the question isn’t simply Who do we want governing our world?
It’s also:
What’s governing our hearts?
Interrupt the Cycle
What if, just for a moment, we interrupted it?
Cut the current in the closed loop.
Not to win an argument. Not to prove somebody wrong. Not even to change their mind.
Just long enough to get a glimpse of the glimmer.
To know that it’s there.
The breeze in a fading ember.
Maybe that’s all it takes sometimes.
A little unexpected kindness. A moment of laughter. An act of mercy where condemnation was expected. Someone choosing to listen instead of retaliate.
Something that reminds us another way is possible.
Jesus said we would know a tree by its fruit (Matthew 7:16–20). And Paul wrote:
“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” — Romans 12:21, KJV
These words challenge me to look beyond what I say I believe and examine what my life is producing.
Because a vote cannot love my neighbor for me.
A law cannot forgive someone for me.
A political leader cannot make me compassionate.
Those are choices I have to live.
And I don’t mean that loving our neighbors and participating in government are mutually exclusive. They aren’t. We can do both.
But I wonder whether we’ve sometimes confused exercising our right to choose with fulfilling our responsibility to love.
Beginning in Me
I certainly don’t have everything figured out.
I’m still learning. Still examining my own heart. Still discovering the places where my actions haven’t caught up with what I believe.
And perhaps that’s why this little moment with a ballot meant so much to me.
I was reminded that I don’t have to control the outcome of everything around me.
I can trust God.
And I can ask Him to continue changing me.
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” — Matthew 6:10, KJV
Not just in Washington.
Not just in our communities.
In me.
Because if I want God to rule the world, I must also be willing to let Him rule my heart.
And from there, love can grow outward.
Into a conversation.
A relationship.
A neighborhood.
A community.
A world.
One everyday moment at a time.
Not because we’ve found the perfect political system or the perfect person to lead us.
But because love is still possible.
Even here.
Even now.
Beginning in me. Growing through us. Reaching into the world.
❤️🙏🏼🌎
Mission: Love Possible — Love, one everyday moment at a time.