“Hope is living the reality and yet investing in a
different one.”
Mitri Raheb, Faith in the Face
of Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Eyes
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a
conspiracy of love.”
(Hamilton
Wright Mabie)
Or maybe not
Merry Christmas to all, including the scum and
sleazebags (DJT)
It was not exactly a season of peace, love, and joy
With rumors of wars
And military strikes in Nigeria orchestrated to salvage a
ravaged ego
And keep a hate-filled base titillated.
Our reality is a thing of horror
As the foul beast that is MAGA
Slouches toward the future
Ready to destroy and devour
Tragedies about
In Ukraine, Gaza, Venezuela, Nigeria
Tragedies manufactured by people
obsessed with power, and themselves
people who are literally
the horsemen of the apocalypse
They are our harbingers of destruction,
division
violence
economic collapse,
and mass death.
This is what we face, even as we face our own
personal tragedies and struggles
One wants to quit
We mourn the losses (such as my wonderful dog, Finn)
and the injustice
the manufactured violence
We feel the pain
and it feels like a conspiracy of hate, not a conspiracy
of love
And yet
Christmas calls us to one thing.
To hope
We can think of that baby,
That strange gift, that met such a devastating end
But came to teach us to love
To love despite it all
To heal, despite it all
To welcome, and give, and forgive
In the face of the worst the world can do
To live in this world,
But to invest in a different reality
Hope, as the Palestinians say
Is not something you feel
It is something you do
So let’s “do hope”
Let’s stay engaged
Let us never tire of doing good
For who knows what will happen
If we don’t give up
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