We inaugurated a new president, Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris, on January 20.
We’ve just completed the most significant benchmark in our entire democracy–the transfer of power from one presidential administration to another–pageantry we perform and celebrate every four years.
The quote that impacted me most in Mr. Biden’s inaugural address, and one I can imagine myself quoting in future blog posts, is what he said about unity. Mr. Biden said, “With unity we can do great things. Without unity, there is no peace.”
Unity please. We so desperately need unity in this country in this day and time, especially since Trump, in his last weeks in office tried to split our country apart even more.
Martin Luther King said, “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Paul urges us in Ephesians 4:31 to “Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
We can’t even begin to change our attitudes about being united with our fellow man until we undergo a transforming change of our collective hearts.
And God is the only one who can do that.
Are you prepared for Him to do that in your heart?
For His Glory 
🙏 Amen Steve.
As you mentioned ‘Unity’ in this post…My mind instantly shot back to 6 years ago when i was asked to play and speak a little about ‘Unity’, lol. “The Simple Way” https://steverebus.com/2014/11/24/the-simple-way/#comment-15046
Hope you don’t mind me sharing my link here? God bless you. 😀
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I agree with your intent here, Steve. Among my FB friends are at least a dozen “true believers,” and the challenge I have with them is their arrogance of believing that THEIR understanding of the Bible is the one and only. I do not worship that book; it was made by human hands divinely assisted. It is not perfect IMHO. Among those “true believers” is at least one pastor back in the KC area who frequently preaches about the “evil Muslims.” Religion has intensified the human tendency to identify enemies and allies, so we leave church encamped instead of embraced.
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