A Letter That Will Never Be Read

I found a letter written recently to George Bush. It is poignantly written to the President in an attempt to convince him to use diplomacy and non-violence to achieve peace. It will probably never be read. In the letter I read:

The war on terror will never end as long as we use tools of man made war instead of tools God gave us for spiritual warfare.

The writer, Lisa LeDonne-Stan, is a history teacher at a Christian school in Santa Rosa, California. She exhorts the President to remember the example of Jesus who taught us to forgive our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. She recalls the lives of those Christians in the Netherlands during Nazi Germany where 90% of the Jews there survived because Christians would NOT turn a blind eye. She reminds the President of Martin Luther King, Jr., who rose up to accomplish great things through non-violent activism. She admonishes our President that to be pro-life is to be pro-life for the two-year-old Sudanese girl, for the ten-year-old Iraqi boy forced to carry a gun, for the men on death row who still need to meet Jesus as their own personal saviour, for homeless women in our cities. We are pro-life for all in Jesus' name.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God.
Matthew 5:9

Note from me: I do not believe that America is a Christian nation. We are a nation of many faiths. We are a nation which welcomes all people. I would not support the goal of Christianizing America any more than I would support all Americans becoming vegetarian. We once had a respect for our differences. However, since George Bush claims to base his presidency on his Christian faith, we by rights should be able to see the fruits of his faith in his actions. Do we?

[Click on the title of this blog to read Lisa's letter in its entirety.]