Certain realities dawn– that if altruism and caring are “woke,” then so be it; that self-improvement, like so much else, has become cliché and marketable, yolo…; that there is often a price to be paid for standing up to injustice, that there will always be room for gratitude and humility, that our earthly existence is relatively short and no one has an endless amount of time in which to grow wiser, or to stay still long enough to listen, or travel and educate oneself or otherwise experience this amazing life– amazing if you’re lucky enough to be born into a stable, nurturing family and given opportunities to blossom and grow along the way.
And since it is difficult to ignore the elephant in the room, I will offer that the human species is slow to evolve beyond tribalism and pecking orders and privilege and a drive for self-preservation and dominance. It seems there will be, for the foreseeable future, a relative handful of lazy, fearful, cold-hearted monsters drunk on power, who take a dim view of humanity, who keep a foot on the throat of self-determination, who utilize their own brokenness as fuel, who think it’s their way or the highway and think nothing of invoking the name of God and inflicting immense pain and suffering in the name of some cockamamie “vision” or because they have a death grip on the past.
I’ve grown skeptical of how God fits into all this.
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