A Nation Divided

If a nation divided against itself

is brought to desolation,

and no city or house 
divided against itself

shall stand . . .

Matthew 25.25

Are we not naive to believe

that America is exempt

from failure?

That her religious, 
political 
and economic 
institutions

are immune from collapse?

That her politicians and bankers

truly have her best interest in mind? 

In vanity is allegiance pledged

to the republic,

to one nation under God,

indivisible . . .

as actions betray

the catatonic state of those

who make this vow,

who remain
caught up in themselves,

cut off from each other,

separated by the factions 
to which they subscribe

which define and empower them 
as persons. 

Divided by our dysfunctional families,
by our religions,

our politics,
and storys,

within denominations,
and political parties,

America is crippled 
by the insecurity 
of defensive selfishness,
by one-up-man-ship,
by the need to be right,
or not be wrong,
by the need to look good,
or not look bad,
by mythology 
masquerading as truth,
and by the corresponding alignment 
with competing factions;

worlds within worlds,

sharing nothing but
a common purse
to finance our incessant delusions,

and enable our mental sloth;

and a common sword,

to sustain legal plunder,
among each other;

and oppose common enemies, 
the foremost of which are

fear 
and its companions
pride and denial.



 If pride truly goes 
before destruction, 
and an haughty spirit 
before a fall, 
Proverbs 16.18
it is axiomatic that
to prevent America's demise


Humility 

is the first most important means
to the desired end.
2 Chronicles 7.14 

Anything short of this
is vanity,
a chasing after the wind. 
Ecclesiastes 2:11