Bless your little crooked heart

“You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart.”

                                                                         W.H. Auden

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We are all in this together

We are together in fear

Together in anger

Together in hurt, and sometimes rage

We are together in hope

Together in love

And here is the thing

As we all stumble down this road called life

As we move toward our dreams

As we wander toward, hopefully, the Kingdom of God

Toward that place when war is no more

And equity exists

And justice is real

And honesty and kindness are the norm

And love rules

We must get there

Together

This is the great error that some make

Perhaps all of us making

Thinking that it is ok for us to gain

At the cost of another

That it is OK if we pave our way forward

On the backs of others

When we create economic inequity

When we profit by using and abusing others

When we create safety by abandoning others

When we create comfort by excluding others

And convince ourselves of our righteous, by judging others

We don’t win

We lose

For we must get there together

This is

Not

A

Choice

It

Is