🎶”I showed up in boots,
and ruined your black tie affair”🎶
We know this line from Garth Brooks’s song “Friends in Low Places”.
We all may relate in some differing way to the situation that is portrayed in this song. Maybe your “Cousin Eddy” shows up for Christmas.
Could it be time, that our corrupt, self-serving Congress experience an uncomfortable situation like this?
Maybe it is time that we send boots to Washington instead of Louis Vuitton’s. How about the boots of a steel mill worker, or those of a rancher? How about the high heel boots of a woman that built a business, or the Bearclaws of a single mom that raised four kids while working two jobs?
Is it time that we send boots that protect feet, that are attached to legs, that attach to a torso, that houses a servant’s heart?
Is it time we drop the ideological litmus tests and test the hearts of those seeking these offices? Is it time to hold them to the test of stewardship? Have they been faithful in little things?
It is time that we send men and women of honor.
Rick Ferguson 