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The meek will inherit
Because they’re willing to share it
BAD
We are in the midst of severely ignoring the currency of the Christmas season.
We have begun to believe that December can be filled with our foolishness and chicanery, when during that thirty days, the Earth always takes a collective gasp for air, so that we can survive the rest of our yearly journey.
But now, we have instead decided to go politically crazy, emotionally distraught and spiritually bankrupt.
How about a simple example?
A seventeen-year-old boy decides to take the family car to a party and does some illegal drinking. Coming out, he gets behind the wheel and drives the car home, where he finds his mother and father waiting for him at the door, unable to deny his intoxication.
But let’s say that same young man went to the party, got just as drunk and drove home, but on the way to his house, crashed his car into a tree. A half-hour later, his parents arrive at the police station to retrieve him.
Just for the sake of discussion, back to that same young man, same party, same drunkenness—but this time, on the drive home he hits a young boy on a bicycle and kills him.
I present these three scenarios to you because we need to discuss some differences among the words errant, mistake and crime.
To the legalist or someone who is toeing the letter of the law, I suppose the boy who arrives home in his car intoxicated is committing a crime. But dare I say, there probably is not a mother or father in America who would view it that way.
They would recognize the behavior as “errant.” It would need to be corrected in-house.
Yet these same parents would probably not consider crashing into a tree to merely be errant. They wouldn’t call it a crime—they would say it was a mistake. Once again, punishment would be in order.
But the parents would have no say whatsoever in the matter if their son killed somebody while drunk. That would be considered by one and all to be a crime.
We have made a severe mistake by impeaching President Donald Trump.
Whether you consider what he did with Ukraine to be errant behavior, a mistake or a crime, the populace will need to sustain that opinion.
Yet what is missing is acknowledgment.
No one has admitted errant behavior or a mistake, so it begins to feel like a crime.
Here’s the question:
Did Donald Trump do something errant, make a mistake, or was it a crime?
We will probably never know—because he refuses to admit his part in the problem.
SAD
It makes me downright sad.
If you put Republicans and Democrats together, you kind of have a great world.
Republicans are all about “hometown.”
- Their lovely burgs.
- Their families.
- Their dogs.
- God’s country.
Democrats, on the other hand, are about the Earth.
- Climate change.
- Global poverty.
- Gender equality across the planet.
Doggone it, I like them all.
I’d like to take the better parts of my hometown and spread them across the globe.
I want to treat the Earth well. So why don’t I come back to my hometown and get started?
It’s sad that we have two great forces that fight against one another instead of turning the Earth into a marvelous hometown.
MAD
But it is maddening that none of this can happen because the ability to confess our faults has diminished until it seems to have finally disappeared.
One of my favorite phrases from the Good Book is, “Confess your faults to one another so you can be healed.”
I don’t want to live in a world that is constantly misshapen, out of step, angry and frustrated simply because we think it’s weak to admit our missteps.
What a great time to come along and stand in front of your friends and proclaim your foibles without fear.
GLAD
Because you know what makes me glad?
Not even an impeachment, violence, partisan politics and hours of boring hearings on television can dim the power and spirit of Christmas.
It is in our DNA to try to give a damn in the month of December.
It’s a glorious time. And it doesn’t go away unless we chase it away.
It is bad that we cannot decide what has happened with our President.
It makes me sad that our Republicans and Democrats don’t know how perfect they would be together.
And I’m mad that we don’t confess our faults to be healed.
But I’m glad it’s December:
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