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G-Pop wishes for his children to listen carefully.
Yes, during this season of great confusion, it is important to be careful how we hear.
With rivers of information flowing through the countryside with greater speed than ever before, there are also mounds of misunderstanding pouring out raw sewage of stupidity, tainting the flow.
Beware the liberal.
Also beware the conservative.
The thing to remember is that truth has no agenda–just a message to make us free; free of the obstruction of needing to stand behind an opinion.
You can always identify the words that are rotten with antagonism.
They blame.
Each political party, every religion, countless races–all point a finger at one another to create blame.
Is there blame? Perhaps. But such accusations need to take a journey through scrutiny.
It begins with the facts. It’s difficult to get them. Websites, news reports and pundits tend to obscure them behind statistics and endorsements.
Listen to all sides, and then find that sweet spot in the middle, where truth has cuddled up, waiting for the persevering soul to discover it.
Find the facts. Don’t be so sure.
Once you find the facts, then it’s important to decide who or what is responsible. Finding the responsible parties is not a decision to target blame, but rather, discovering who has the power to bring solution.
Who is responsible?
Could it be that we are responsible?
What part of the responsibility can we take onto ourselves, to make sure that something will be addressed?
Then, once responsibility is addressed, any blame that needs to be brought forth in order to clean up the nastiness can be pointed out without fear.
- Facts.
- Responsibility.
- Blame.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work if you go the other direction–blaming someone and making them responsible to fit your allegation.
G-Pop must warn his children that if they pursue the facts to ascertain responsibility, to correctly place blame, that they will find themselves being neither conservative nor liberal–just real.
It is a season when goodness will be determined by those who are not so intent on advertising the badness in their adversaries.
To do this requires a set of ears tuned to history and the love of humankind … instead of listening for reasons to confirm our suspicions and alienate one another.
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