Now you could say, well, you live in the country and there were only two things on the ballot, two very non-essential things, really. You didn't have the opportunity to vote for the things that matter to the community you are part of, so it isn't that big of a deal that you forgot...
Except.
This reveals a deeper personality quirk of mine - how easily I can walk around in my box and forget the big world outside my head.
Take for example, my love for people and coaching/mentoring. I was deeply impacted by the sacrifice of people in my life, and so I talk about it, I encourage others to think about it, and I am even considering going to school to have more training in it...
And yet, I have to admit that there are times I fail to step up to the very plate I'm creating. So.. while mulling that in my life, and how I am doing really living out what I believe, I was reminded... I forgot to vote this year.
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.James 1:19-27 - from the NIV version of the Bible.
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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