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“Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice

“Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate…” ~Amos 5:15
#blackouttuesday
#theshowmustbepaused
🖤🖤🖤

With Memorial Day one week ago, I’ve been thinki

With Memorial Day one week ago, I’ve been thinking of my husband’s Granddad, Eddie, who served in the European theater of WWII. Eddie and others from his division helped liberate Dachau concentration camp, and as they were doing so, they rounded up several of the local townspeople and walked them through the gates of the camp. The soldiers wanted the townspeople to see the atrocities and injustice they’d ignored.

It’s terribly easy to turn a blind eye to what doesn’t affect us.

I see how in some ways, I’ve been guilty of ignoring the injustice around me, too. (Lord, forgive me.) I’ll continue to examine my own biases and privilege as a white person, and I’ll continue to listen to and have conversations with folks of color. But I hope to engage more in the discussion in this space, too, clumsy and inarticulate though it may be. So, let me say it in writing: The evils of brutality and systemic racism are wrong as the day is long, and I can’t be a part of the solution till I examine how I’ve been a part of the problem—may the Holy Spirit bring my own blind spots to realization.

We belong to each other, all the broken and beautiful parts of ourselves.

My friend Salena (@salenaduffy), after hearing the news alongside her son of the arrest of the officer that took George Floyd’s life last week, said this, "We don’t rejoice with malice in our hearts, we rejoice because of the hope and faith that maybe, we are no longer the only ones in the fight against the disease of racism and injustice.” .
Salena, I’m in the fight with you, and I thank you for being one I can listen to and learn from. (I highly recommend following Salena on facebook where she’s very active: www.facebook.com/salena.porterduffy.) A few other folks I’m listening to and learning from right now:
@lucretiaberry
@loswhit
@priscillashirer
@oshetamoore

Who are you listening to and learning from?

May you have someone in your life who looks at you

May you have someone in your life who looks at you the way I look at really good birthday cake.

Year 46, here we go.

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without me

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” ~ Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Romanian-born American author

Today, we remember with gratitude the men and women who gave all defending our nation so all could be free. May the families of our fallen heroes feel our support and prayers today and always.
#memorialday

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