By: Ali Elizabeth Turner
“That’s a lot of Ps,” I thought to myself, but there really is no other way to put any other title on this “Pub Point.” In our family, we have a saying that is applied to an unpredictable situation over which we have no control. It goes something like, “Large bucket of popcorn, extra butter,” and if you say, “Please pass the popcorn,” that means that several people “in the theatre” are involved in “watching the flick,” and the bucket is big enough to take care of everyone in the row…as long as they like “extra butter.”
What in the world am I talking about? It is the little more than two weeks that President Donald Trump has been in office, and believe it or not, this is not an article about politics. It is rather the “buckle up, butter cup” disruption that we are seeing to “business as usual.” I grew up in the Civil Rights era, and it was wild. I grew up in the ‘60s, and it was wild. But I will readily admit, I have never seen anything like this.
With at least a bit of tongue-in-cheek, we have had to consider the possibility of buying Greenland, having Gaza turned into a Middle Eastern version of the Riviera, and Venezuela being interested in housing all kinds of criminals.
Politico has been proven to have received millions of dollars from the government, biological men are no longer going to be able to give women head injuries in the Olympics, the classified documents re: the assassinations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Francis Kennedy, Sr. are going to be released, and most likely the list of “clients” that were “serviced” by Jeffrey Epstein’s enterprise is going to be exposed. Oh, by the way, there has been a stunning revelation, and that is that in the United States of America, there are only two genders.
In other here-to-fore-thought-to-be-impossible-turns-of-events, several folks who formerly were sworn political enemies of President Trump are now on his team, including one from the most famous Democratic Party family in our country’s history. “Who-da-thunk-it?”
Whether the events of the past two weeks make you want to shout, “Oh, Hallelujah,” or “Oh-hot-place-no,” the “point of this Point” is that the U. S. of A. is in unchartered waters, and we need prayer. You may think President Trump is effectively cleaning house and taking care of things that no one ever thought would be confronted. Or, you may think the man is on a dangerous romp and his policies and people are going to be the end of us. Perhaps you think it is a combination of the two, and that each new development needs to be regarded on a case-by-case basis.
Whatever you think, there is one thing that we as believers are commanded to do, and that is pray for our leaders, all of them, whether or not we agree with their actions. We need to make sure that our “popcorn” is doused with the “butter of prayer,” and that as we watch things that no one has ever seen, we take our place as “watchmen on the wall.” Let’s get to it.
January 3, 2025
