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It is troubling.
“Family is everything.”
This philosophy is so widely accepted in our society that any attempt to question its veracity would be similar to suggesting the public execution of puppies in the town square.
Let’s first make something clear–Jesus was not an advocate for the genetic family. For instance:
–His clan was certainly dysfunctional.
–He was nearly killed by the hometown folk because they did not appreciate his message.
–And his family members went to Capernaum to bring him home because they thought he was crazy. He had to sidestep them, and informed them clearly that his family was anyone who did the will of his Father.
–When telling parables, he often criticized those who used family obligations as an excuse for not doing more for the world.
–He said our worst enemies would be those of our own household.
–And certainly he made the point that if you don’t “hate your mother and father, “you aren’t worthy of the kingdom.”
Jesus was concerned that we would love those who were connected with us through family ties, and not extend the same courtesy to our brothers and sisters throughout the planet. Why did this bother him? It’s really quite simple.
Please understand that evil never permanently leaves the spotlight, but merely goes backstage, dons a different costume, changes make-up and reappears as a new character. I believe this is what has happened in America. We are obsessed with the holiness of family. Yet it has suspiciously grown in popularity following the disintegration of segregation, Jim Crow and newfound civil rights for immigrants and the gay community.
Prejudice needed somewhere to hide. Bigotry was looking for a disguise. What could be better than family? It is literally “Mom and apple pie.”
So the same tenets which were promoted through segregation–that being “staying with your own kind”–have simply resurfaced as a maudlin proclamation of “loving your own.”
If everybody prefers their own family, we will isolate ourselves, making us vulnerable to evil tyrants who come and use our fears of one another to bring about mayhem and death.
I am troubled by the “family is everything” brigade. It is a way of hiding bigotry, which is no longer allowed to express itself through cross-burning, so instead is using cross-lifting.
My children know I love them–but they know I love them as I also love all of God’s children.
Remember, the last words of Jesus in the Great Commission were not, “Go back to your families and be happy.”
Rather, “Go into all the world.”
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G-Poppers … February 2nd, 2018
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Although there are proponents who would suggest that he falls into one or the other of these categories, the truth of the matter is that Donald Trump is President of the United States. He achieved this by campaigning and receiving the lion’s share of the electoral votes.
G-Pop wants to make this clear.
G-Pop is the veteran of many presidents and can tell you that most of them were accused of moral indiscretion, the majority considered crazy, and all of them touted to be dictators who over-extended their power.
It is important to understand the nature, the function and the mission of the job.
Most of the time the President of the United States is not negotiating with foreign powers nor plotting global wars.
He is the closest thing to a daddy that 320 million immigrants have.
As our daddy, it is his job to provide a sense of security and a voice of kindness. That’s it.
G-Pop’s not even sure if it’s a political position. Approaching it from that angle only seems to render the job mean-spirited, stalling action and legislation.
He is our father, who art in Washington–and maybe someday, our mother who art at the White House.
Questioning the morality, sanity, motives, hidden meetings or deceptions of our President is just political maneuvering to gain control of our country.
What the position really requires is kindness.
No one understood that better than Abraham Lincoln. Although President Lincoln had good reason to be furious over the attitudes of the Southern states, his second inaugural speech characterized his tenderness toward his children in Dixie by saying, “With malice toward none, with charity for all…”
Yet every President G-Pop knows has selected to be vindictive against his enemies, contending that if you don’t punch back, they’ll just punch harder. But Abraham Lincoln, in four short years, saved the Union, freed the slaves and was able to end a horrible conflict.
Did he do it by being mean?
Did he do it by being angry and sending out nasty notes to his enemies?
Did he do it by sleeping with his interns?
Did he do it by torturing the prisoners of the Confederate Army?
No, he did it as kindly as a man can do when waging a war against insanity.
Kindness is when we look in the mirror and practice the words we’re going to say to another to get a sense of how it might feel.
You don’t have to be a moron or a genius to be President.
But G-Pop wants you to know that it’s the mission of our President to allow kindness to flow to the north, south and east…from the West Wing.
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