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If you live on this blue dot, I love you.
Don’t care where you’re from/who you vote for/who you do or don’t worship. That’s what our Father tells us to do.
I’m imperfect, just like you, and just like the broken world that is frighteningly less peaceful than this image suggests.
Don’t care where you’re from/who you vote for/who you do or don’t worship. That’s what our Father tells us to do.
I’m imperfect, just like you, and just like the broken world that is frighteningly less peaceful than this image suggests.
Even with that understood, I live in a country where looking like me means I may not be as afraid in my daily life as people that don’t look like me.
The truth is (and that’s all I ever aim to seek and share, is the truth), I will never know what your fear feels like.
The truth is (and that’s all I ever aim to seek and share, is the truth), I will never know what your fear feels like.
What I, and people who look like me *can* do, is let you know that we are willing to have some brutally uncomfortable conversations that help us understand even the slightest amount of what those fears and pains feel like to you.
It’s not the solution, but it’s a start.
It’s not the solution, but it’s a start.
Without those conversations, any of our attempts to support you — well-intentioned as they may be — are done ignorantly (maybe even selfishly) on your behalf. You deserve more than that.
We have the luxury of retweeting and sharing Instagram stories that demonstrate some awareness: your reality isn’t fair, and it is downright dangerous.
After passively hitting *share* on a few sentences that feature a new name, a new face, a new hashtag, and the latest avoidable murder, we can scroll the day away with nothing more than a vague discomfort that you are suffering in an alternate reality far from our own.
Many of us can see blue lights cruise past us on the interstate without thinking twice. We can make eye contact with a police officer downtown and feel safer because of the interaction, not less so.
I share this on Twitter, because it is currently where I have the largest following and some small degree of influence. A whole bunch of people have more than I do on this app. Others have it elsewhere. Whether you do or you don’t, the numbers matter far less than the effort.
I want to encourage those with the same priveleges as me to form bonds with people you otherwise wouldn’t. I want to encourage you to join conversations on forums you would otherwise avoid.
It might make you uncomfortable. Nothing changes if you don’t show a little empathy.
It might make you uncomfortable. Nothing changes if you don’t show a little empathy.
I want to encourage those with a badge, political influence and/or power to pursue the truth and justice in communities that have gone unchecked for decades, and in some, for centuries.
It may be tempting to feel like your peers already have it covered. They need your help.
It may be tempting to feel like your peers already have it covered. They need your help.
I want to encourage those without these privileges to educate me on topics that you may otherwise feel like I wouldn’t care about.
It will probably frustrate the hell out of you to explain some things to me. I’m an excellent listener.
It will probably frustrate the hell out of you to explain some things to me. I’m an excellent listener.
We live in a broken world where evil exists in countless forms.
Vengeance is ultimately The Lord’s —not ours’. Until that justice comes, it is our spiritual duty to seek the truth, speak it to others, and act. We cannot avoid it any longer.
Vengeance is ultimately The Lord’s —not ours’. Until that justice comes, it is our spiritual duty to seek the truth, speak it to others, and act. We cannot avoid it any longer.
I pray for our nation, and I pray of its leaders:
Pursue the truth. Seek to understand the pain and fear that is real to millions on this blue dot, even if it never will be to you.
Choose the path of courage for the sake of truth and healing. Please, let’s stop avoiding it.
Pursue the truth. Seek to understand the pain and fear that is real to millions on this blue dot, even if it never will be to you.
Choose the path of courage for the sake of truth and healing. Please, let’s stop avoiding it.
