Public service is a calling not an ambition.
Therefore, if the calling is present and the person freely responds and God blesses his or her decision, no one loses out - everybody wins!
So must we always pray for God to raise among our people, good public servants - shepherds after His own heart!
May God inspire in our hearts
a discerning love of the true shepherds
of the common people -
May the LORD cause us
to exhort and support them,
to recognize and to love them,
and to appoint them, wherever necessary,
in free and peaceful elections -
May the generous and good God, our Father,
deign it acceptable to enrich our national communities
with their vigilant and beneficent stewardship
in all levels and across all distinctions
within our one nation.
AMEN.
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It is said that one only receives the love one thinks one deserves. As a nation, my people, what kind of love do and can we reasonably and realistically expect from government?
In a democratic society, these expectations matter. For these expectations of ours inadvertently shape the custom and the norms that help or hinder the rise and the success of those who are in government to serve or to be served.
Those who expect corruption when and where it suits them in the citizenry provide those who are corrupt in government a means to be corrupt.
Those who expect excellence and all manner of praiseworthy things from our public servants in the citizenry provide those who are true in our government a means to remain so.
Those who do not know what to expect will likewise reap the same uncertainty for their lukewarmness and timidity of spirit in public participation.
Liberty is an exercise, not an excuse.
Therefore, if the calling is present and the person freely responds and God blesses his or her decision, no one loses out - everybody wins!
So must we always pray for God to raise among our people, good public servants - shepherds after His own heart!
May God inspire in our hearts
a discerning love of the true shepherds
of the common people -
May the LORD cause us
to exhort and support them,
to recognize and to love them,
and to appoint them, wherever necessary,
in free and peaceful elections -
May the generous and good God, our Father,
deign it acceptable to enrich our national communities
with their vigilant and beneficent stewardship
in all levels and across all distinctions
within our one nation.
AMEN.
---<--@
It is said that one only receives the love one thinks one deserves. As a nation, my people, what kind of love do and can we reasonably and realistically expect from government?
In a democratic society, these expectations matter. For these expectations of ours inadvertently shape the custom and the norms that help or hinder the rise and the success of those who are in government to serve or to be served.
Those who expect corruption when and where it suits them in the citizenry provide those who are corrupt in government a means to be corrupt.
Those who expect excellence and all manner of praiseworthy things from our public servants in the citizenry provide those who are true in our government a means to remain so.
Those who do not know what to expect will likewise reap the same uncertainty for their lukewarmness and timidity of spirit in public participation.
Liberty is an exercise, not an excuse.
Lateral responsibility precedes horizontal authority.
