Anyone can destroy

“It takes no genius to destroy. The creators, the givers, the lovers, the healers - these are the heroes who know - the building up is so much more difficult than the tearing down.”

― Laurence Overmire, New York Minute

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It doesn’t take effort to cut someone down

It doesn’t take much to criticize

It isn’t difficult to find the problems

It isn’t easy to destroy laws that protect the earth

Or legislation that protects the vulnerable

Its damn easy to cut the poor out of the budget

It is the building up that is difficult

It is hard to love the unlovable

Hard to find that “something good” to praise

It is hard to make the difficult choices that will lead to better health care

Hard to go against those you fear to stand up for the weak

It is damn hard to confront hate

To call out liars

And insist on the truth

It is hard to give

Hard to create something new

Hard to heal

And near impossible to love

Our President does nothing that is hard

He simply flails and destroy

The Congress that supports him does nothing different

Simply allowing laws to be destroyed that did much good

(may put a little restraint on rampant and greedy capitalism)

The American church

Simply attacks

The LGBTQI community

Women

People who are poor

Shaming, insisting on excluding them, diminishing them

Hating them (fundamentally)

For all its talk about following Jesus

It is easier to grasp to hate, to exclude, to judge

Then it is to give, forgive, include and love

It would be easy for me to spend my time ripping apart those I disagree with

Some might say that is what I am doing now

Perhaps that is what I am doing now

Mea Culpa

Mea Maxima Culpa

Lord, whatever we do this day

May it be something positive

Something loving

Something generous

Something life giving

Because anyone can destroy

Only a Sacred Child

Living out his or her inheritance

Can build up.