Oregon Is Worth Fighting For

She’s Worth Fighting For

I hear from so many Oregonians how tough it is to live there right now.

These are folks who are more in the middle and to the right on the political spectrum.

When no one listens to you, you get frustrated.

When lawmakers keep raising taxes you have no recourse and feel powerless.

But something is changing.

When people get tired enough, they don’t care anymore about cultural retribution, they care about making things right again.

When God created Oregon He really did outdo Himself.

Lot’s of lakes, streams, the ocean and the mountains.

He gave her hot springs, the Steen Mountain, deserts and the beautiful Willamette Valley.

He also gave her people who are rugged individualists.

The beauty is still there but an influx of far left leaning people who don’t remember or have never experienced the independence of Oregonians, infiltrated the place that is now unrecognizable to people who care about fairness, freedom of speech and playing nice.

Oregon is worth saving.

Oregon is worth fighting for.

Oregon is worth putting in front of the most powerful force in the universe.

But where do you start?

So much of the culture is polluted and poisoned with an unsustainable ideology that’s taken hold.

It’s like some have fallen under a spell and nothing you say to them will break it. They are right, you are wrong, get the hell out of the way is the prevailing attitude.

Solutions:

People will say “Stop Mail In Elections”,  “Redraw State and Federal congressional boundaries”, and “Get a more balances legislature”, all great ideas.

But a friend and I were talking on the phone yesterday and he said something that stuck with me.

What if we used our voices to show up at city, county, state and congressional meetings and spoke to the one power who can change all of this?

Oh, we still need to be very public about our voice and speak out.

But maybe we’re forgetting about the more powerful voice we have and that is the voice of prayer.

What if you and me stay part of our community but instead of protests, signs with dumb sayings and trying to get our story out we just showed up

and quietly pray in the back of the room.

What if we asked our creator to open the eyes of the blind, bless the people in that room and our community and give our leaders enough discernment to see past the madness?

We should also ask for protection for our president, his family and his cabinet and all those trying to right the wrongs of America. It’s apparent there’s a target on their backs.

Again, we still need to be vocal but perhaps using our voice to speak to the prince of peace, the almighty God, the everlasting one, would be the next plan of action.