A Word About Tomorrow From Yesterday

At the end of each week's Wednesday's Word, you may have noticed there is a quote from the works of the man who founded the Methodist movement, Rev. John Wesley.  I hope you have taken advantage of these words from the past, which are as relevant now as they days in which they were written, to add Rev. Wesley as a dialog partner in your faith journey.

As citizens of the U.S.A., we (if we haven't already) have not only the right but the responsibility to vote tomorrow.  As he does on many issues, Rev. Wesley had some very profound words of advice for one of the Methodist societies he was visiting with which were facing elections in late 1774.  From his journal entry of Thursday, October 6, 1774:

I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them, 

1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy: 

2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against: And, 

3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

Some rather sage advice, I think, for us all.  May we all hear and live out these words.

Grace and Peace, Lamar