I just encountered the following awesome statement from Tulsi Gabbard:
God is love. The very essence of God is love. Therefore, during times of hardship, sadness, pain and suffering, we naturally and spontaneously take refuge in Him — in love itself — because we know in the core of our hearts that it is only the power and light of God’s love that…
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) August 29, 2025
I beseech you: please, please read it all. Reflect on it. The simple truth contained in Tulsi’s words is the weapon that has brought down tyrannies.
Hardly the sort of emission you’d expect from a politician, is it? Yet there it is. It says much that must be said – that needs to be said – if the madness that has come close to ruining the world is to be quenched. Then compare its message to the scorn high-profile Democrats and other leftists have poured on prayer in the aftermath of Robert Westman’s mass murder of Catholic schoolchildren.
From our origins to our present time, Mankind has known evil. That’s not because we’re evil; we’re not. We’re what God made us: temporal creatures with individual desires and free will. In every generation there will be some who misuse their free will to prey upon others. A great part of the human struggle is to come to grips with evil when it manifests among us.
Some have more ability than others to confront evil directly. Those of us who aren’t so equipped must do what we can: we must safeguard our characters and those of our children. When evil strikes, we must rely upon our understanding of our fallen state, and be prepared to explain it to our children.
Prayer is critical at such times. Character is formed from a host of influences. Prayer – regular, humble submission to the will of a loving God – is essential to it. Children must be brought to the understanding that it’s not just a way of wishing for a new pony. To pray is to recognize our limitations. To pray is to say to the One who has no limitations, “Thy will be done.”
But as Tulsi said in the tweet above, politicians and hangers-on who denigrate prayer will have none of that. They cannot defer to God without admitting to their own fallibility and limitations, which is anathema to them. Why else would the very idea that others are praying for love and understanding upset them so? What are they really saying in their scorn? “Don’t trust God; trust us!”
Their vision, however misty, is of themselves on the throne of the universe. Their will, not God’s, as the determinant of all things.
Once more, with feeling: Put not your trust in princes. (Psalms 146:3) Trust God. Trust in your conscience, for it is He who speaks to you through that channel. And trust in the words of the Redeemer:
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.[Matthew 22:34-40]
I’ll probably be back later. Have a nice day.
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