“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not put it out” (John 1:5).
That light is truth, integrity, and courage. Yesterday it was shining as bright as ever.
Republican Mitt Romney and Democrats Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Joe Manchin of WVA, and Doug Jones of AL were that light incarnate.
They stood by the oath they took as impartial jurors and did what was right. They found Donald Trump guilty as charged.
But Romney’s stand was a profile in courage as we have seldom witnessed. He stood alone without another colleague in his caucus at his side. Not one.
History will not remember the individual Republicans who stood with Trump, except as a group.
History will remember Mitt Romney as the one Senator who stood against his party because he wanted his children and grandchildren to remember that he did what he believed was right.
In an instant, there was light in the dark world of Trumpism and hope once again filled the heart of everyone who believes in truth. Romney changed everything about what happened.
I keep asking myself what his colleagues are thinking about today. Are they wondering if they should have done what he did? Probably not, yet when someone does something like what Mitt Romney did, it has an impact. I wonder what that impact has been in the last 24 hours on the men and women who serve with him.
I confess that I didn’t see it coming. I wasn’t expecting Mitt Romney to be light in this darkness, or, for that matter, Doug Jones, Krysten Simena, or Joe Manchin either.
But I learned once again that light often shines when we least expect it, good stands up when you think it has been knocked down for good, when truth is heard over what seems like a deafening cacophony of lies.
I want to remember that. More than remembering I want to trust as I have never trusted before that light does indeed shine in the darkness and the darkness has not put it out…and never will.
All because one man dared to shine a light in a room filled with darkness, and in doing so he lit up the whole world.
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