It’s been a world of hurt lately, and yet it always is.
It is always true that the poor are with us, that evil men and women plot against us to do us harm, from the personal level to the national.
We can be fearful and aggressive and return hate for hate, fire for fire, blow for blow.
We can also simultaneously live a confident life, right now, doing the right things, even when there are setbacks, because we know, we know, that doing the right thing is the right thing.
I’m perplexed, confused, and deeply saddened by the hatred expressed in acts of violence.
I can react as a praying man, a caring man, a thoughtful man.
And I can react as a doing man. In spite of the attempts to tear down and destroy, ruin and wreak and rage, I can continue to build up, to restore, to heal, to love, to trust.
By doing so I heal the world and I heal myself.