‘Who Won?’ It’s The Wrong Question.
Kingdom Citizens Are Called To Be Prophetically Present During This Election
Somehow over the last two decades, I’ve come to think of the wee hours of the night as our time to savor being American. Year after year, our family participates in the important events of our heritage while the rest of Europe sleeps. Super Bowl parties that begin at 1:00 in the morning, US Olympic events in the middle of the night, waking up at 3 to hear a new album being dropped, and laboring through the night for presidential elections. Lexi has this vivid memory, she says, of waking up as a little girl of 12 to find Jay asleep on the floor in our apartment in Sofia, Bulgaria. ‘Who won, Dad?’ It was election 2000, the infamous ‘chads’ debacle, he, of course, had no answer for her budding political mind. Rather than inconveniences, the middle of the night participation in these things ‘American’ has caused us to savor them as the precious pieces of our culture that they are.
When it became clear that my fellow Americans would go to bed on this election night with no results but many questions and impending and evolving controversies, I posted on facebook. ‘Americans in America — sleep well … Americans in Europe will watch the election while you sleep.’ Maybe it sounds silly, but I got choked up as I pressed, ‘send’. There is both…
