You might quiet the whole world for a second
If you pray
And if you love, if you
Really love,
our guns will wilt
St.
John of the Cross
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It seems to be a day for pondering
another year almost gone
gone
and future ready to be birthed
the path behind is littered
with debris
mistakes made
anxiety rampant
I needed no help
to make the way steep and slippery
I needed no help
at all, at all
yet help was there
a gauntlet of hate and discord
voices screaming, spitting vitriol
poisoning the airway
the internet
ah, the very air
out come the guns
literally, sadly
figuratively, sadly
children killed
people damaged and wounded by words
and ideologies
lives ruined by ideology turned into action
(who needs food, housing, and health care anyway… I need
another house!)
and yet
and yet
a way forward lies
undetermined
undefined
how will we define it?
with fear?
or love?
our choice
love is a choice
with a God
who
is
LOVE
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What we need is people
of love “rubbing off on one another….right now we need to pass on grace and
healing…”*
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