The best we can do right now is the best we can do. 

We can be influencers and voices to those who help and serve us. However, we don’t control the government. We can vote and that is powerful. We can let our leadership know how we feel and that is never a waste of time. We can make our contributions to causes that bring about change. We can volunteer in places that make a difference. After that, it’s up to those we elected. After we do and have done all we can do, we have to sit back and wait and watch to see what is going to happen. Sometimes we approve. Sometimes we don’t and sometimes we are unsure. 

In the middle of conflict and uncertainty, we should never cease to pray for our president and leaders of government. They need our prayers. They also need our support. They need it when we feel they are right and they need it when we believe they are wrong. Just because we believe leadership may be wrong doesn’t mean we withdraw our support. Usually when we feel they are wrong they need our support more but in a different way. That’s when we say, “I support you but you need to go at this in a different way.” Sometimes those who lead us listen and it seems like often they don’t pay any attention to us. 

In the middle of all that is going on in America and the world we need to be busy going about our lives as much as possible. We need to work our jobs, take care of our families, pay our bills, plant and raise our gardens and do life as best as we can. Our country and houses of faith are made up of everyday, hard-working Americans. Hard working Americans of faith have made this country and will keep this country going. 

Too often we have albatrosses that are hung around our neck. We’ve had Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. They were financially crippling and killed thousands of our people. We don’t want any more of that insanity but we are wondering if we are bound and determined for more? 

What will Venezuela bring to America? What are we getting ourselves into? What kind of blowback is coming our way? Are we going to plunge head first into Iran and their problems? Here we go again placing ourselves where we don’t need to be.  Next, there is Greenland, Cuba and Mexico. Where will all this take us and cost us? 

Let’s pray for Venezuela that they can get their act together and elect their own leadership. If we can help them with their oil and benefit both countries then that would be a win-win. 

In the meantime, let’s do the good things we know to do. Our communities and towns need us to carry on, even when it seems like the world is trying to fall apart.

— Dr. Glenn Mollette is read in all 50 states. He may be emailed at gmollette@aol.com.