If you run a business in Mexico or Canada… if you are a European grandfather looking over the border at Russian aggression… if you are an African mother whose child needs life saving medicine— the question is this: CAN YOU TRUST AMERICA NOW? It’s a sad day that this question has to be asked at all.
I don’t have a ritual for this.
ince 2002, this time of year meant it was time for the ritual. I just completed a year of classes and I donned my cap and gown and marched with pomp and circumstance to celebrate the completion and new beginning at the ritual of Commencement.
“To be horrified by the slaughter of Israeli innocents doesn’t require denying the suffering of the Palestinian people,” writes @MikeCosper.
But it does require an “active rejection of antisemitism.”
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Still so quiet, I don’t recognize my own self. Keith said he’s ready for me to re-enter witty repartee. Lol. I think he’s calling time on my mourning season. He had my piano tuned yesterday and I’m finding language playing 1 hymn after another. I think this’ll help me find words.
“God is a giver of peace.” @spencersweeting Phil4:7. This means I don’t have to conjur up peace or find a distraction from lack of peace. I can ask Him, and receive.
That an upsurge in voters to the polls triggers voter suppression lawmaking is remarkably like spiritual warfare - including the denial of the reality of both.