foolish losers

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”

                                                           Anne Lamott

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It takes a lot of work to be right!

To work out all the formulas

In just the right way

So that you have all the answers

To put yourself in that position of power

Where you can look down at others

Those fools

Those losers

Those sinners

And pronounce them less

Pronounce them sinful

Pronounce the excluded

It takes more work to realize your own faults

Your own blind spots

To realize that you too

Are a foolish loser

A sinner

Who has no more claim on God than anyone one else

(which means no claim at all)

But are merely one on whom God has staked a claim

Of love and acceptance

IT takes more work to be kind to that flawed, miserable beautiful you

Than to pretend righteousness

It takes more work, to accept, and love and care for,

That one who fundamentally

In so many ways,

Is just like you

It takes so much work

To be

kind