✝️ When Leadership Abdicates

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The government has shut down. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers face furloughs. Some may never return to their posts. For families across this country, that means uncertainty in paychecks, in rent, in groceries, in medicine.

This is not leadership. This is abandonment. Those elected to serve have chosen posturing over people, power over responsibility.

But let us be clear:

The pain will not be felt in Mar-a-Lago or in the boardrooms of billionaires.

It will be felt in kitchens where meals must stretch further, in homes where mortgages hang in the balance, in lives where service has been met with betrayal.

Leadership is not measured in slogans or spectacles. It is measured in faithfulness to the people you serve—protecting the vulnerable, carrying the weight, feeding the flock.

A leader who abandons his people in their time of need is no leader at all.

“Woe to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?” (Ezekiel 34:2, KJV)

And yet—even in abandonment, the people endure. Neighbors step in. Communities rise. Workers carry one another when leaders have failed.

History will not remember the false strength of those who let their people suffer. Heaven will not forget the ones who stood, who helped, who refused to let the powerful write the final word.

Every age has leaders who fail their people, but there is always a greater voice calling us back to justice, truth, and care for one another.

The false shepherd has fled, and opened the gate for the ravenous wolves. But the true Shepherd is calling. Do you recognize His voice?

John 10:27 (KJV) “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:”

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✝️ Cuando el Liderazgo Abdica

El gobierno se ha cerrado. Cientos de miles de trabajadores federales enfrentan licencias forzadas. Algunos quizá nunca regresen a sus puestos. Para las familias de todo este país, eso significa incertidumbre en los cheques de pago, en la renta, en la comida, en la medicina.

Esto no es liderazgo. Esto es abandono.

Los elegidos para servir han preferido el postureo sobre las personas, el poder sobre la responsabilidad.

Pero seamos claros:

El dolor no se sentirá en Mar-a-Lago ni en las salas de juntas de los multimillonarios.

Se sentirá en las cocinas donde las comidas deben rendir más, en los hogares donde las hipotecas penden de un hilo, en las vidas donde el servicio ha sido respondido con traición.

El liderazgo no se mide en eslóganes ni en espectáculos.

Se mide en la fidelidad hacia el pueblo al que sirves: proteger a los vulnerables, cargar con el peso, alimentar al rebaño.

Un líder que abandona a su pueblo en su momento de necesidad no es líder en absoluto.

“¡Ay de los pastores de Israel que se apacientan a sí mismos! ¿No deben los pastores apacentar a los rebaños?” (Ezequiel 34:2, RVR1960)

Y sin embargo—aun en el abandono, el pueblo perdura.

Los vecinos se apoyan. Las comunidades se levantan. Los trabajadores se sostienen unos a otros cuando los líderes han fallado.

La historia no recordará la falsa fuerza de aquellos que dejaron sufrir a su pueblo.

El cielo no olvidará a los que se levantaron, a los que ayudaron, a los que se negaron a dejar que los poderosos tuvieran la última palabra.

Cada época ha tenido líderes que fallaron a su pueblo, pero siempre hay una voz mayor que nos llama de nuevo a la justicia, a la verdad y al cuidado mutuo.

El falso pastor ha huido, y ha abierto la puerta a los lobos rapaces. Pero el verdadero Pastor está llamando. ¿Reconoces Su voz?

Juan 10:27 (RVR1960)

“Mis ovejas oyen mi voz, y yo las conozco, y me siguen.”

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Memorial Day or MAGA Day? When Honor Is Overshadowed by Ego

Memorial Day is a time-honored tradition in the United States—a solemn day of remembrance for those who laid down their lives in service to our country. It is a sacred pause, a chance to reflect, to thank, and to honor the fallen. But this year, the weight of that reverence was hijacked. Once again, Donald Trump has turned a national moment of unity into a personal platform of grievance.

While standing at Arlington National Cemetery, surrounded by the graves of America’s bravest, Trump delivered a speech meant to honor fallen soldiers. But as always, the spotlight couldn't help but drift from sacrifice to self-interest. He paid homage to individual service members, but the reverence was quickly undercut by political attacks. His speech was laced with critiques of his opponents, self-congratulatory comments about “fixing” the country, and a disturbing undercurrent of resentment.

Earlier that morning, he posted on Truth Social, referring to his political opponents as “scum” and criticizing judges for daring to enforce the law without bias toward him. On the very day we are called to set aside differences and honor sacrifice, he took aim at Americans who don’t share his beliefs. This was not patriotism. This was performance.

What should have been a unifying message became a partisan display. A day of collective grief was interrupted by the rhetoric of division. Trump didn’t just politicize Memorial Day; he desecrated it.

This isn’t new. We've seen it before: solemn occasions twisted into campaign-style spectacles, sacred traditions exploited for applause. But each time it happens, the damage deepens. Our civic rituals lose meaning. Our divisions widen.

America is better than this. Our heroes deserve better than this. Memorial Day is not a stage for self-promotion or a battleground for ideology. It is a sanctuary of remembrance. To call fellow Americans “scum” on this day is to spit on the very values those soldiers died defending.

We must reclaim the sacred. We must draw the line. We must demand leaders who honor sacrifice not just in word, but in spirit.

Donald Trump remarked on the convergence of the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, the return of the Olympics to American soil, and the 2026 FIFA World Cup—all aligning with his presidency. And the Army's 250th anniversary on his birthday “I think God did that,” he said.

And on that point, Mr. President, you may be right.

But not for the reason you think.

Perhaps God allowed it—not as a crown of favor, but as a moment of unveiling. A line drawn between ego and honor. A call to the nation: to discern the difference between reverence and performance, between sacred memory and political spectacle.

Because true honor doesn’t center itself.

And sacrifice is not for sale.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” —John 15:13 (KJV)

Let that be the final word—not applause, not division, not self-congratulation. But love. And the memory of those who lived it.

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