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Monday February 10^th, Isaiah 58: Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? ⁶ “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?  Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. ⁹ Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, ¹⁰ and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. Many followers of the tea party I have met have been very generous people.  They are kind, loving and caring.  Their Achilles heel is that they consider the government a “them” instead of a collective “us.” Their generosity extends to those they know personally, leaving the many, those unconnected, to fall through the cracks. In considering the government a them they can easily be bought off by the likes of the Koch brothers into believing they are helping one another by making things harder on everyone except their idols of wealth.  The reality is that in the current day and age, that in decreasing the power of the government, the collective us, we are increasing the power of the corporation which has great regard for profit and little regard for the “us” in this world.  Most in the tea party unknowingly find themselves working and fighting against themselves and their own self-interest.  Satin often works that way, alas, We have met the enemy and he is us.