Stunned

This is the hardest post I’ve written in a long time, as I simply have no idea how to make sense of the news today. I am utterly stunned by the election results.

And I know that you often turn to me to help make sense of things.

I’ve got nothing.

Not just because it’s too early for analysis… because data analysis won’t change the results. There is something fundamentally wrong with what’s happening, like we are in a sci-fi universe that got mangled by aliens or magic or who knows what.

And this morning, I’ve got nothing.

Later today - like many of you who are religious professionals - I’ll have to pull it together for a vigil of some sort. And in the next day or so we will have to figure out what worship will look like this weekend. And then we’ll have to figure out what the work will be and where hope will emerge.

But right now, it’s okay for all of us to cry, and keen, and wail, and rend our garments, and hide from the world, and stress eat, and hug our pets and families, and hide under the covers.

And through it all, know you are loved, and seen, and beloved, and somehow we’ll figure it out.

Leaving you with Spencer LaJoye’s “Ploughshare Prayer.”

Amen.