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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/PcM3Y8kACo4" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="A Wing and a Prayer" /></p>A wing and a prayer<br />or <br />the enemy<br />(this has to stop)<br /><br />God lift me from the intolerable burden of my ignorance, arrogance, wilful blindness, bitterness and resentment<br /><br />As I pray that others rise above the same faults and temptations<br /><br />I watched Fox News release a message this week:<br /><br />There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you<br /><br />And coming for us<br /><br />And then I watched the Democrats respond in panic and anger, saying:<br /><br />There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you<br /><br />And coming for us<br /><br />Are there terrible things afoot, bubbling under the surface? <br />Is something coming for you?<br />And for us?<br /><br />Ask yourself how true that is of yourself and your own life<br /><br />Have you addressed all that? <br /><br />Are you concerning yourself with the dust in your enemy’s eyes, instead of attending to the filth that obscures your own sight?<br /><br />Do we want accusation, suspicion, discord, derision and hatred? <br /><br />Or the peace and prosperity and happiness that beckons to us at this moment like never before?<br /><br />Who’s the enemy here?<br /><br />Is it the basket of deplorables?<br />Is it the freaks and the queers?<br /><br />Is it the plumbers and carpenters and tradesmen and managers who work honestly and diligently during the day and the soldiers who stalwartly defend the borders and protect us?<br /><br />Is it the artists and visionaries whose expressions of unbridled creativity entertain and rejuvenate us and who continually offer to us an unending panoply of technological miracle?<br /><br />Is it the institutions that guide and protect us that so many lived and died to erect and establish which for all their faults have served us so well?<br /><br />Do we want revenge or justice?<br />Do we want contempt or mercy?<br />Do we want war—or peace?<br /><br />And what are you aiming at in your heart of hearts?<br /><br />I see even the best of men degenerating into the exchange of blows. <br />I see even the best of men identifying the enemy in our neighbours and friends.<br />I see even the best of men falling prey to cowardice and self-righteous anger.<br /><br />It needs to stop. <br />I need to stop.<br />You need to stop.<br /><br />Before it’s too late.<br /><br />Who is the enemy here?<br /><br />The snake in your heart?<br />The lies on your tongue?<br />The arrogance of your intellect?<br />The cowardice of our refusal to see?<br /><br />The enemy is that which divides to sow discord.<br /><br />The enemy is the pride and fear that stops us from lending a hand acoss the divide.<br /><br />The enemy is the great and eternal adversary of mankind.<br /><br />And if we demonize our brothers, our comrades-in-arms, do we not precisely call that dread spirit forth?<br /><br />Have we not yet learned?<br /><br />Courage<br />Trust<br />Truth<br />Love<br /><br />Even unto your enemy. <br />Which is you.<br /><br />God forgive us our trespasses<br />As we forgive those who trespass against us<br />May what is highest guide our vision<br />May what <br />...<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcM3Y8kACo4 |