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Regardless of who wins the US election people still fear the future. What is the first antidote to fear?

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[Darris McNeely] Today is Election Day in the United States. Finally the decision is going to be made this year, 2012 - the election between the two major candidates and by this time tomorrow we should know who the next president of the United States will be.

It's been a very difficult campaign, not unlike many others in the past, the typical mudslinging and accusations and issues back and forth vigorously debated. But one thing that I've noticed in this particular election campaign and that is it seems regardless of who is elected in this election, who will be the next president, people are fearful. There is uncertainty because of so many of the issues that are facing not just the United States, but the world - especially in the economy.

I was looking in the Financial Times, today's issue, one of the headlines is, "Funds Fear Election Gridlock." Fear seems to be an operative word right now regardless of who wins the election. People are fearful about the economy, about a looming fiscal cliff. If you were to go on and read this article it's riddled with phrases that highlight the very fact that people, or the future is uncertain in terms of the economy, jobs, employment, the debt, the deficits,  the situation in Europe and especially America. Will we go back into another recession? Will we hit a fiscal cliff in January with some of the tax issues that are involved come January 1st? Fear is the operative phrase.

Let's stop and think about this regardless of who you may have voted for. If you've already cast your ballot, maybe you haven't cast a ballot, maybe you've been so turned off you didn't participate this year, whatever. Come tomorrow, November 7th, whatever the decision is, let's understand something. And that is the need for each of us to quit looking to an election, to quit looking to a politician or government in any form, of human form, to solve our problems, to make our decisions for us, or to even to help us eliminate this problem of fear about our life and about the world, about the future.

When it comes down to it, we really do need to begin to look to a higher power, to God, and a peace and an understanding that can come from that. There is a scripture. Jesus Christ mentioned this in John 14:27. Well known, He says, "Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid."

That's John 14:27. Neither be afraid. The peace of God - that is really what all of us need to come down to. And if there's one decision that we do begin to make post-election, let's make it this that we begin to accept responsibility for our own success and our failures and recognize that it begins with us. And it ends with us really. And if we can have that peace and that relationship with God, then we don't have to be afraid of what another human being is doing, about what policies a government might be making. And our hope is not in some elected official, but our hope is ultimately in God and the realization that we are responsible for the decisions that impact our success and our failure. And regardless of the outcome of any election at any time that does not have to jeopardize our inner peace and our success in life.

Keep that in mind and we don't have to be afraid.

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