Stuck

Reading some of the news stories today you would think that the GOP's chance of winning back the Senate is all but dead because a GOP candidate won the Delaware primary.  Christine O'Donnell a conservative republican beat out the believed shoe in Mike Castle for the spot on the republican ticket for Delaware's Senate seat.  Now you may be thinking my blog today is going to be all about politics.  No, it's really going to be about becoming stuck.

The GOP is unwilling to support Christine O'Donnell financially and has offered little congratulatory encouragement.  The reason, she is to conservative, lacks experience and is viewed as not having a chance to win the seat.  It appears the GOP is willing to cut off their nose to spit their face.  Why?  One reason is that they are stuck.  Lifetime seats in the Senate can cause myopia and atrophy causing those in them to become more self-serving and defenders of the system instead of the principles that the system is founded on.

But isn't that somewhat true for all of our lives?  What was once new and innovative eventually becomes canonized, systematized and seen as the rule or way we are to do it.  We love our traditions.  Now this is not necessarily a bad thing tradition has a very valid and needed place in society and culture.  It is when the tradition or the system trumps the founding principles or beliefs than we are in trouble and stuck.  Jesus said, "Neither is new wine put into old wineskins.  If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed.  But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

While our political system seems to becoming more and more mired in keeping power for power's sake, in keeping the old guard while others are adopting old socialistic ideologies the nation as a whole is experiencing entropy.   But change always starts with the individual.  How are we stuck?  Is my life driven by eternal principles or have I become stuck in tradition for tradition sake?  Are my decisions based in living truth or pragmatism, hedonism or other humanistic philosophies?  Change is difficult, it is uncomfortable and will be resisted and mocked by the systems that are no longer driven by their founding principles.  To not change is certain death whether it comes quickly or slowly.

Maybe an inexperienced conservative candidate is the answer or maybe not.  Maybe staying in the place we are at is the right thing for us or maybe it is not.  All of us at least need to be open to evaluating our position.  Are we more concerned about tradition or keeping what we have than, living truth and eternal principles?  Maybe we need our own personal tea party for the areas we are stuck in.  If for no other reason the tea party movement will be beneficial if it makes us reexamine our political establishment and reexamine our actions and our life.