They Say We Need A Revolution
January 16th, 2010 Posted in General Updates
At our youth New Years Eve party, I mentioned (in a blog post) that we played Steal Bingo/Anonymous Gift Exchange/Polyana/DirtySanta (whatever you and your friends call that game) at 6:30am. I was lucky enough to receive a really nice, hard-covered day planner, where you write in the dates yourself, so you can insert pages of notes wherever you wish. You aren’t limited to a month or whatever. I live for planners like this. I am a journaler and one who writes out the details of each day to make sure that I’m accountable for my time, esp. as a missionary. (One of my biggest struggles in full-time ministry is figuring out when to say no, how to rest, and how to separate school/friends/student time, and remain faithful. It’s been 3 years. The journal/planner is one way to stay sane during insane periods of my life.)
Once a month, I “clean out” my email, and make sure that I am caught up with finances, bills, and communication with certain people. As I read emails, there is frequently the phrase “Hey, can you pray for…” – I then take a page out of the journal and try to be faithful to the requests. Tonight Ben brought to mind a HUGE prayer request for tomorrow:
UKRAINIAN ELECTION DAY is Sunday, January 17. Yikes. This holds a lot for this country, since 5 years ago the elections were corrupt, the Orange party demanded a recount, and then the corrupt loser poisoned the winner, disfiguring him and leaving Ukraine in a revolution. Five years have passed. We’ve been reading articles about people selling their votes, and that if you show on your mobile phone camera that you voted for Yanykovich (the same sore loser who poisoned the current president), you will get an equivalent of $10-20. And let’s just say that people will do it.
JOIN US IN PRAYING FOR FAIR ELECTIONS. Right now there are almost 20 candidates/parties. Anyone with more than 3% of the votes gets a say in Parliament. The two winners will go on to a second “tour” which will decide the final president in the Spring. If this corrupt guy gets elected, Ukraine is heading towards Russia and Russian will become an official country language. (His Ukrainian is embarrassingly terrible.) If the Princess with the Braid gets elected, that means other issues with corruption, but at least she is West-leaning. We would vote for someone not at all aligned with the oligarchs who stole all the industries in 1992 and are billionaires. The rich keep getting richer while the country weakens. Grrr…