What can we do with America?

What can we do with America? America’s in trouble and the rest of the world seems to be falling down with us! That tells us one good thing… that people of this world look to us for leadership even if we have let them down recently. I’m not sure that as an individual American, I can do too much for the economy, but with our vote, we can change the leadership of this country. And with prayer we can change things too. I don’t think we can do anything else. I already voted by absentee as I’ll be away for the election, and I for one intend to pray a lot and try to be a little nicer and help someone out who needs help. That’s all we can do isn’t it? The Gospel reading this Monday was The Good Samaritan. You remember the story don’t you? A guy got beat up and robbed and left for dead. The ones who were supposed to help (because they were the ones in power) walked around him, probably casting their eyes away and saying it wasn’t their job. But do you know what the Samaritan showed them? A single person and a little kindness goes a long way to fixing things up. Kindness and justice can defeat greed and the downslide our world seems to be going in. God bless us as we try to fix our country.