This Election Year

This year's race for the Presidency of the United States — primaries, nomination outcomes and the soon to get seriously underway general election — have caused me more angst than the usual elections do.  St Joan Chittister, OSB, has written an article on the lack of leadership in this election cycle; you can read it here. I have often prayed her Prayer for Leadership, one of whose stanzas goes like this:

Give us insight enough ourselves to choose as leaders those who can tell strength from power, growth from greed, leaership from dominance, and real greatness from the trappings of grandiosity.

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