As some readers know, last week and this week have/will feature the quadrennial political conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S.  From these gatherings (which, due to Covid restrictions, are largely virtual) the parties' presidential nominees will emerge.  And the election campaign will commence in earnest.

     I suspect that readers, at home and abroad, have a wide range of opinion regarding which candidate will be the most suitable president.  That's fine:  we're all different.  And we all have varying convictions, wants, and desires.  

After all, we're only human.  

     That's the point.  We're only humans, humans who are living in a world suspended between forces, natural and supernatural, well beyond our control.  We delude ourselves if we think we know, always and absolutely, who the "right" candidate is.  For what is "right" is often no more than the product of our individual confirmation biases.  Although some of us claim to have a transcendent standard of morality, we interpret that standard in immanence:  we are not clairvoyant.

     When Israel's God chose David to be the nation's next king, he didn't look at exterior success or appearance.  He looked at the heart.