Acts of courage

“Cruelty is cheap, easy, and chickenshit”

                                    Rene Brown

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Let’s hear it for kindness

Let’s hear it for compassion

Let’s hear it for inclusion

Let’s hear it for loving

For these are acts of great courage

It takes courage to be kind when you are angry

It takes courage to show compassion when you are afraid

It takes courage to include others when don’t want to be vulnerable

It takes courage to love, when hate is so easy

It does not take courage to take a AR-15 and enter a synagogue,

and shoot a 79 year old holocaust survivor

It does not take courage to lie, taunt, bully and mislead

To feed the roar of an unthinking, unhinged crow

It does not take courage to tweet insults

It does not take courage to seen 14,000 heavily armed troops to the border

To stop a few thousand desperate refugees armed with bread and water (if they have that)

What our world need is acts of random courage

People willing to tell the truth in the face of falsehood

People willing to embrace those feared and rejected

People willing to call out evil when they see it

People will to be kind, compassionate, inclusive and love

For the nurtured cruelty we see everyday

A cruelty which comes from the top down

Is “cheap, easy, and chickenshit”