Vote Fear
We are terrified. The uncertainty presenting itself conjures narratives of violence and destruction. It’s too easy to say, “do not fear.” It’s too easy to urge everyone to cut and run or stay and kill. Look deep into the mirror today, tomorrow and the rest of this week. Focus on your family, your community, those intimately connected to you. Allow love to lead calm and push you into next month and next year. We will be OK if we lose the fear of uncertainty for the presence of love. Fighting for what we need right now doesn't look like taking it to the streets. Fighting for what we need right now looks like leadership in our homes, neighborhoods and communities. Leadership that puts away the duality of our time in lieu of loving those within our touch. I am not asking for doormat citizenship. I ask us to listen to the call of love. That hushed voice in you, in me, that is asking us to step away from whatever “ism” we hang our flag on and love those directly in front of us.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
doesn’t have a swelled head,
doesn’t force itself on others,
isn’t always “me first,”
doesn’t fly off the handle, keep score of the sins of others, or revel when others grovel.
Love takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
puts up with anything,
trusts God always,
always looks for the best,
never looks back, but keeps going to the end.
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