fervor: an intense, heated emotion; passion; ardor; passionate enthusiasm for a cause
2016 is the year our country, the United States of America, is voting in a new President. And we are everything except "united."
There have been endless rallies, with crowds of people gathered together to burst forth into applause when a point of agreement is expressed in a speech. Planned, designed, and orchestrated with music and balloons to be the equivalent of a New Year's Eve party there is cheering, yelling, smiling; jeering and ridiculing the opposition; maligning in order to validate one's position. And these are just the candidates.
The line has been drawn in this Presidential election of 2016. There are few who are half-way or half-hearted in their support Many are as much against a candidate as they are for.
Politics is a messy business, but this one seems to have brought out the worst in people. A total lack of civility has surfaced as personal attacks are made upon one another by our citizenry. Disagreement is often expressed in the form of vile, vicious comments. Social media has made it easy to hide in anonymity.
Struck by a single picture, one of a candidate and their supporters clapping and yelling with maximum enthusiasm, I had this thought: Oh, that mankind had that same kind of fervor for those things which are long-term, eternal, for the spiritual.
Having God and the things of God as the focus of passion, however, is neither viewed as being important nor politically correct.
And so we shall see the results of misdirected fervor of the mortal, temporal kind.
God help us all.
"A wise man builds his house upon a rock."