1. United States
2. Utah
3. Letter

The Blue Tsunami wasn’t a political wave. It was a reckoning. A reminder that you cannot worship a man and claim to serve God. This shutdown isn’t faith in action. It’s idolatry in motion — blind devotion to a demagogue who preaches grievance instead of grace. Every day you keep the government closed, you trade compassion for cruelty and call it conviction. Mosiah 4:26 commands: “Ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.” Well, here I am — begging.
A furloughed federal worker.
A mother.
I fought my way off SNAP and Section 8 years ago. I swore my kids would never see me digging through couch cushions for bus fare to a food bank. Yet here I am again — not because I failed, but because you did. Because your party controls all three branches of government and you let a malignant narcissist turn hunger into a weapon. There is no aid here. No food banks. No paycheck. No help. Just empty promises while you kneel at the altar of power and call it patriotism. You still have a choice.
Stand on the rock, not at the feet of a false prophet.
Make a deal. Reopen the government. Restore SNAP. Feed the hungry. Pay the people you swore to serve. Mosiah 4:26 doesn’t give you wiggle room. It’s not a metaphor. It’s a commandment.
Faith without compassion is hypocrisy.
Silence in the face of cruelty is consent. When your day of reckoning comes — and it will — ask yourselves whether you followed Christ or a king.