#31 Mother Mary For ...

Mother Mary for Pres... because I imagine she had to figure out how to bring peace between her and Josephs's family due to their unexpected pregnancy. The guts she had to have to leave behind her home, travel, and live like a refugee. She would bring such insights to our immigration problem. Her having to bring peace among Jesus and his brothers (who didn't buy Jesus' claims). Maybe she could help us become bipartisan again. She must have known what it was like to survive as a widow. She might have something to say about wealth and poverty in America. She endured shame when the community claimed her son was insane. We could use some humility right now. She stayed at the cross, experiencing loss that no parent wants to experience. She could teach us a few things about suffering as we swim in American victorious theology. She rose to leadership in the early church. She had depth, real-life experience, strength, courage, conviction. Oh and, she had to figure out how to raise the Savior, and oh, how she must have been willing to rethink what she thought she knew about God and her world. That woman could teach us a few things about life and leadership, and endurance for the long game. I'd vote for Mary!