A word of encouragement the "day after"

  What can we say about yesterday? It was the worst outcome we could have expected. Mitt Romney is an honorable family man who would have made a great president. I find it unacceptable to excoriate him for the campaign he ran. 

  The talking heads are having fun pretending they know exactly what happened. Why we didn't get our Chick-Fil-A moment we don't know. 
  I'm resisting writing what I've been saying all day. 
  I believe in God and that He has control over a fallen world; that His purposes are never singular; that in all things He can work good; that sometimes we are victims of our own successes and would be better off if we didn't get what we want; that pain is necessary to warn; that we survived Jimmy Carter and we can survive this.
  I believe all those things; I also believe that the malignancy that is Barack Obama is going to inflict some serious pain on all of us conservatives and our children.
  To hear him mouthing those platitudes about caring about all Americans for a change is nauseating; anticipating his strut across the world stage bad-mouthing America while Moochelle spends billions of dollars on trips around the world wearing tight green capris while the fashionistas coo apparently not noticing her panty line is enough to make you want to hide your head for the next 4 years.
  On Monday I said that I believe God is moving in this country; I still believe that. We could certainly see it in the weeks before the election. 
  The turmoil in Syria is increasing, yet renowned Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias talks of the many Syrians who, because of their circumstances, have turned to God. 
  On a practical level, not everything went wrong yesterday; Michelle Malkin has a list of 20 things, including the rejection of some serious union issues in Michigan and the reelection of Republican judges. You can read the entire list here.

20 things that went right on Election Day
By Michelle Malkin  •  November 7, 2012 03:46 PM
1. Republicans retained control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2. Voters in Alabama, Montana, and Wyoming all passed measures limiting Obamacare.
3. Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz, one of the conservative movement’s brightest rising stars, overcame establishment GOP opposition to clinch a U.S. Senate victory in Texas.
4. Corruptocrat Beltway barnacle Rep. Pete Stark was finally kicked out of office in California.
5. Despite entrenched teachers’ union opposition, a charter school initiative in Washington state triumphed.
6. Despite entrenched Big Labor support, a radical collective bargaining power grab in Michigan failed.

  Glenn Beck had the list of progressive issues that passed yesterday; I can't do anything about that. The culture will go where it wants to go; that does not mean I have to go with it.
  There's no way to mitigate the disaster of yesterday, either politically or emotionally. 
  But the movement that started in the nation years ago isn't going away; it wasn't meant to. It simply appears to be evolving in a different way.
  Of course, we have to watch the reprehensible tactics of the left, like gloating over Obama's victory by calling those who opposed him filthy names.
  And who can abide the smug and idiotic Chris Matthews who, like Savannah Guthrie, was "so glad" that there was a storm last  week because he thought it made Obama appear, for once, presidential. Never mind the thousands who lost their homes and the hundred who lost their lives. At least Obama "looked" presidential for a day, according to Matthews. Whoopee. Four years would've been nicer. 
  All is not lost, though it certainly feels like it.
  Forgive me if I don't applaud the pollsters who are patting themselves on the backs right now;   even the Devil is right sometimes.
  The truth is we don't believe the liberal media anymore. That whole love affair's over.
  The battles we fight aren't easy ones nor are all our enemies flesh and blood.
  Two days ago the outcome might have gone a different way: everyone thought this. To crow over all that was done right by Obama's cult members and pick apart everything the Romney team did wrong is stupid and foolish. I won't be party to it.
  Yet are truer words ever written than these?

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

  And, yeah, those struggles are eternal.
  But I know how the story ends. I take great heart in that.