A stretch of whitewater ahead, October 30th, 2024.

So election day is less than a week away. I've already written about our need to put and keep our trust in God and that this spiritual calibration needs to be maintained throughout the whole ordeal.

Put not your trust in princes already, Psalm 146.3.

But with that said, and your spirit being all serene the way it ought to be,

you still have to live down here, starting in the middle of next week,

and you will still have to make sense out of all the

tumult that will be going on all around you. What I wanted to do here is share with you

how I see the lay of the land. Take it for what it's worth. And in the main

I'm speaking here as an observer, not as a partisan. But in the aftermath of an election like this one, certain observations will be automatically relegated to the status of partisanship, so be aware of that also.

This will not be a long sustained argument, but rather a collection of observations about the campaign,

the candidates, and what our varied reactions will need to be like.

Think like a short stop. If the ball comes to

you go to second. If the ball goes to left field, then you are the cutoff man. If the

ball goes to right field, then as everyone on the team should know, you should

run a pick six. In know, you should run a pick six.

In short, you should have a range of your options in mind.

For example, if Trump wins by the narrowest of margins,

those plans should not include an evening stroll with your family in downtown Baltimore.

Okay, mark the beginning of some random observations.

All the mojo appears to be with the Trump campaign and the Harris campaign is in disarray.

She is manifestly out of her league, in over her head and also

underwater. Those three are hard to do all at once. When she is asked the most straightforward

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