Now…more than ever before, I understand the challenge of being a wordsmith – writers will become the clarion callers for decisions and our culture’s worldview.
It will be the writers who will submit history books to curriculum publishers, detailing the content and atmosphere of the 2016 presidential campaign and election. Children in the classrooms of 2020 and beyond will read about what happened and hopefully – understand a bit of what makes us Americans.
It will be historians and journalists, using the written word, who will supply opinions about our current political climate and whether or not the president-elect will be a successful leader.
Writers will pen op-ed pieces and blog posts. They will complete articles and finish biographies about the same people we are now seeing on the evening news.
Credible writers will study both sides of the issues and explain the pros and cons, birthing new discussions and forcing readers to examine what they believe.
And writers will point us to the truth, begging us to consider lies that have been told, then peeling back the disguises so we can all find the root of the problem.
Those of us who accept the challenge to analyze thoughts through words will hold this weighty responsibility in our hearts as well as in the movement of our fingers upon keyboards.
It will behoove us to let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable to the One who embodies truth.
In the beginning was the Word and that Word still communicates with mankind, sometimes in the stillness of the divine whisper but also through the musings and determination of anointed writers.
The prophet Isaiah surely grieved as he wrote, “I looked, but there was no one to help; I was amazed and appalled that there was no one to uphold truth and right” (Isaiah 63:5 Amplified).
I accept Isaiah’s subtle challenge, willing to face onslaughts from both sides who disagree with my analyses.
Praying as I go forward and place my words in the public eye, hoping my wordsmithing may become a starting point for discussion, compromise and ultimately – compassion for all of God’s creatures.
The pen is still mightier than the sword, and the Word still reverberates with truth. How we interpret those words and act on them will determine the consequences we face.
God helping us – we MUST write.
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