30 million Americans have passed through the early voting gate so far with perhaps another 100 million expected to pass through the gate tomorrow. When the day is done and assuming we don’t have a constitutional crisis due to voter fraud or nagging unanswered questions about citizenship, we will have entered a new field.

It feels like we the American people are in the process of being herded from the field of one owner to a field of a new owner. As sheep, we don’t know what this means for us, nor do we understand the back room deals that facilitated the transaction. Regardless of our party affiliation, we are all hoping for greener grass. We have no idea if the new owner we voted for will feed us, sheer us or butcher us.

Regardless of our next leader, we are heading into very rough waters in the next four years. The mindset that got us into this mess cannot possibly lead us out of it. We need a new way of thinking. A new way of acting. A new way of surviving and thriving in the new economy we are facing. It is not debt based, mammon centered, self reliant or wrapped in gifted rhetoric.  It requires vision but is laden with opportunity. It requires sacrifice but promises great reward. It succeeds regardless of political corruption or ineptness. I have seen it operating first hand in Eastern Europe where corruption is rampant. This is not a pipe dream.

So while about half of us may not like the new owners of the field we find ourselves in on Wednesday when the counting is (hopefully) done, it doesn’t mean we are doomed. If we do find ourselves in a dark period with much foreboding, that only creates more demand for light. So fill up your lampstand with oil and be prepared to be the light of the world as we have always been called to be. It’s never been more important!