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Thursday, June 27, 2013

America, America. ..

God shed his grace on thee.
i cry when my kids sing patriotic songs... i do... they are so utterly innocent and beautiful, those songs...
purple mountains Majesty...amber waves of grain...
this place is so wild and wonderful... and so utterly chaotic and misguided.  and i don't even mean to suggest that i should be the guide to realign what has gone awry but, really? this place?
full of people who call themselves pro-life but spew hatred, or seem to find glee in a celebrity who turns out to be a murderer, politicians who sell their votes for money, judges who turn aside from justice.
people who seem to be able to type 'murder' without a sense of the deep, deep, universal wrong that exists there. we should stutter.

but if we are all perfect, designed by God? what then? the haters have a place?  the killers?  it hurts my heart a little bit to try to stretch to have compassion for spewers of spite, hypocrisy, oppression....
and yet what else is there?  by giving up the fight, i become the other side.. i stop seeing humanity in the mass, i lose something of my own...

i feel a bereavement, it is an overcast summer day... and so the morning goes.

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