Change

Change.

It was the recurrent theme in the elections.  One side saying they were already making change, one side advocating a change to the change.  Even climate change made its way in there.

This theme kept tugging at me.  Why so much push for change?  What are Americans yearning for that they do not think they are receiving?

Is it a cultural change?  Look around America and you see diversity in every walk of life...one need only to move from the country to the city, or vice versa, to get a change in scenery if that is what they so desire.

Change in economics?  In government policy?  Sure, we can shuffle around how money is spent, and try to come up with better solutions to the national debt, and scheme up ways to become more affluent...

...but is that the change that American is really seeking?

I think America's confusion is captured in this need for change.  As I was sitting with my friend tonight, studying and watching the number game of the electoral college and the gamble of trying to figure out what counties needed to be won by which camp to get which state, I knew in my heart that this was not the path to the change that America wants.  I mean, how artificial...to pretend that the "change" that will supposedly improve Americans' lives is based on a president, who is elected mostly from the political climate of a handful of swing states with a handful of populated, influential counties...

No, America.  Your search for change lies outside of a number game.  Your search for change lies outside of a man.

Your search for change...for meaning, if I dare call it that...lies in the person of Jesus Christ.

I mean, really.  Isn't He the one Way we haven't taken yet?  Isn't He the Truth that we have not acknowledged?  Isn't He the Life we have yet to accept? 

If you want change, He's staring you right in the face, America. 

America, I still love you.  Yes, even with your sometimes misguided decisions, your naivety, you are still dear to me.  Silly enough, it reminds me of something I heard from a speaker on my first Steubenville retreat: "There is no such thing as a 'slut'.  There are, however, girls searching for fulfilling love who are severely misguided."  America, I do not, cannot believe that you are really bad, even if I disagree with you.  You are simply on a wrong path to a change that, frankly, I do not believe you really understand.  Allow me to introduce to you a Man who is searching after your heart...