Conceivably, the most important decision we make in the days ahead is Not which boxes we check behind the curtain tomorrow, but, rather, how we react afterwards when the results are announced.

Now is the time to Decide who we will be in the aftermath of the election!

Today, please decide how you will react if your candidate wins; 

decide how you will react if your candidate loses.

Envision the best version of yourself, and be that. 

I believe the best version of you is gracious in victory;

the best version of you is calm in defeat.

The best version of you, in any circumstance, is respectful, kind, peaceable and compassionate.

Before gloating, mocking, and ridicule usher forth from those who are victors, and before disbelief, contempt, anger and rage set in from the defeated, Choose Now to have rational thinking, courage and benevolence guide your actions….and your words.

Our children and grandchildren are watching – yours and mine.

We owe it to them to lead by example and to win, or lose, with grace.

We instruct our children to be good sports. 

We teach them to set aside their pride and shake hands with the opposing team and say “good game” after the final score.

This preserves the integrity of the game and demonstrates there is unity in the love of the sport.

We have the opportunity every election cycle to demonstrate there is unity in the love for peace. To demonstrate that we love our neighbors, even if – and especially when – we do not agree. We need not vote alike to love alike.

Tomorrow and the day after, and the days after that, may peace prevail.

May we love our neighbors as we would want them to love us.

May we speak only in ways we would want to be spoken to.

Please be your best self.

I will do my best to do the same.

Love,

Rev. “Twinkle” Marie Manning

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