I will be the first to tell you that I'm not political. I side with neither party. I find that they all have opinions I agree with, as well as ones I don't agree with. So whenever there is a debate, a caucus, or a primary, I always keep my mouth shut. However, the people in my Facebook newsfeed don't tend to do the same.

I usually just scroll through all of the long rants and the status updates, and it's gotten to the point where I don't even look at the comments people have left because of how ugly they are, just because one person's opinion is different than their own.

Being a Baton Rouge native, I knew my Facebook would be full of people posting after the shooting on Alton Sterling last week. I was right, and the posts only got longer after the Dallas shooting took place days later. I happened to notice a difference in the posts though. Concerning Alton Sterling, all of the posts were either agreeing that the police were in the wrong, or listing Sterling's rap sheet showing that he wasn't exactly the model citizen. After the Dallas shooting, the posts took on a different tone. In almost every post, there was some reference to love, hate, and God.

Then it hit me. Our country desperately needs God, but only wants Him when we realize how little we are by ourselves. We only seem to post about Him and even say His name when some sort of tragedy has happened, when evil has seemingly won, and when hate seems to be the only option. What if we realized how much we each need God every single day? What if we shared His Word, what if we lived our lives by it? What if we all vowed to do our part to make our country unified?

America is just the place where we live. America can not make us love one another or quit fighting against one another. We have to make the change. We have to be the ones to stop fighting fire with fire, to stop playing the blame game when something happens that we don't believe is right, and most importantly to stop thinking revenge is the only answer. We may think such a task is impossible, but we have to start somewhere.

We have to realize that as a nation we are also a family. There will be people we don't agree with, or even care for really, but we still have to love them. Everyone deserves love and respect no matter what the color of their skin it. We are "One nation under God." One. Not, "One white nation under God." Or, "One black nation under God." We're not even "One blue nation under God." We are all "One nation under God." And it's time we start acting like it.