Where in the world is Sarah Palin? (fc)

In June 2008 Sarah Palin gave a speech at her home church.  The occasion was a graduation of ministry training school students.  I recall watching the video of the speech following her Vice Presidential nomination and thinking:

-       *she loves Jesus and has been discipled well in a great church

-       *her life is surrendered to God with the accompanying sense of “call” on her governorship

-       *she is a humble woman

-       *she has a strong sense about the significance of this moment in our country and of God’s plans for her and for Alaska in  impacting the nation- it’s very prophetic and revivalist in tone

I’m sure that her VP nomination was interpreted (rightly I think) as part of the fulfillment of the vision that God had put in her heart and confirmed through prophetic words.  She probably thought the moment of national revival was imminent and she would be in the middle of it.

Since that time Sarah Palin has endured betrayal, ridicule, loneliness, anger, exhaustion, family turmoil, etc…  Today she is mostly labeled the quitter-governor, bad-mom, foreign policy idiot, hayseed political quack that ultimately couldn’t handle it.

My sense is that God’s hand is on her life and that if she will surrender to the things God wants to do in her heart she won’t believe the things He will do with her life.  She is just getting started.  I don’t know if God wants to use her in politics or what.  My hope is that she won’t get sucked into the Christian speaker club but, rather, she goes for it. 

What is Sarah Palin up to right now?  Last Wednesday she gave a speech to a group of investors in Hong Kong.  The topic?  Foreign policy.