Who do you trust?

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

                                                          Abraham Lincoln

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Perhaps we are who we listen to

We are whom we trust

We are whose words we echo

Whose values we live

Whose attitudes we mirror

Whose heart we reflect

We have a choice,

We really do,

About whom we choose to trust

It is a profound choice that changes

Fundamentally

Who we are

When Jesus was baptized God said

“This is my beloved child, listen to him”

And Jesus words echo through the ages

Blessed are

Blessed are you

Blessed are you when

You are poor in spirit,

When you mourn

are meek,

hunger and thirst for righteousness,

show mercy

are pure in heart,

are peacemakers

it is all too clear

in this time when greed, and hate, and a lust for power rule

that this is difficult to do,

and if one seeks to live this way one might even be “persecuted for righteousness' sake”

for sure one will be ridiculed, call a libertard, or a snowflake

but still we are called to carry on

to seek to bind up the wounds

to care for ALL

to create Justice

and seek peace

But our capacity for living this way

The depth of our mercy

Will be profoundly determined

By who we listen to

And whom we trust

Do we listen to, and trust people who would stir our fear,

Or people who would stir our love?

Do we listen to and trust people who live in the light of truth,

Or people who peddle lies and fear?

Whom do we listen to?

Whom do we trust?

For we are who we listen to

We are whom we trust

We are whose words we echo

Whose values we live

Whose attitudes we mirror

Whose heart we reflect