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Showing Original Post only (View all)I'm Really Tired of Hatred [View all]
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/01/16/im-tired-of-hatred/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=John+Pavlovitz&fbclid=IwAR02TrgQq56fo0uhczQGbfu7x_jDWoVJ8YKCsoWP_Ep_cl5Zj4CqfOTqWPUIm Really Tired of Hatred
January 16, 2020 / John Pavlovitz
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Thats it. Im tired of hatredlike, really tired.
Im tired of waking every morning and seeing that were in an another unnecessary and preventable Constitutional crisis.
Im tired of having to once again channel the adrenaline to confront a new onslaught of real and manufactured emergencies.
Im tired of having to desperately appeal to public servants to do the decent and humane thing and seeing them again flatly refuse.
Im tired of trying to convince professed followers of Jesus that theyre supposed to care about other people.
Im tired of dancing through minefields at family gatherings; doing verbal gymnastics to sidestep relational explosions and to keep loving people Ive recently learned unsettling things about.
Im tired of scrolling through racist, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic hate speech filling my social media mentions.
Im tired of being reminded daily of the white supremacy that my former church friends are so terribly afflicted with.
Im tired of seeing stories of newly-emboldened bigots showing up as neighbors, elementary school teachers, local politicians, and coffee shop patronsbecause they feel a kindred embittered spirit in the White House.
Im tired of boastful, nonsensical, intentionally-provocative Presidential tweets littered with Democrat slander, wall-building taunts, and abject lies.
Im tired of having to once again channel the adrenaline to confront a new onslaught of real and manufactured emergencies.
Im tired of having to desperately appeal to public servants to do the decent and humane thing and seeing them again flatly refuse.
Im tired of trying to convince professed followers of Jesus that theyre supposed to care about other people.
Im tired of dancing through minefields at family gatherings; doing verbal gymnastics to sidestep relational explosions and to keep loving people Ive recently learned unsettling things about.
Im tired of scrolling through racist, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic hate speech filling my social media mentions.
Im tired of being reminded daily of the white supremacy that my former church friends are so terribly afflicted with.
Im tired of seeing stories of newly-emboldened bigots showing up as neighbors, elementary school teachers, local politicians, and coffee shop patronsbecause they feel a kindred embittered spirit in the White House.
Im tired of boastful, nonsensical, intentionally-provocative Presidential tweets littered with Democrat slander, wall-building taunts, and abject lies.
I am so damn tired of hatredand yes, Im tired of hating it all too.
Im tired of continually confronting uglinessand of the increasing ugliness it brings out in me as I do.
Im tired of walking into a room and trying to calculate inside my head, how many of them there areand resenting human beings Ive never met based on my evaluation.
Im tired of assuming the worst in people because the bumper sticker on their car or the red hat atop their head or the channel they get their news from.
Im tired of the impatience and irritability always sitting just below the surface of my countenance, and how often it breaks violently through and into my day in angry words in traffic or expletives spoken under my breath or easy frustration with the normal inconveniences of life.
Im tired of regularly losing my religion as I fight both for and with my faith tradition: being anything but Christlike while advocating for the teachings of Jesus.
Im tired of feeling a growing hopelessness when I see the people were becoming.
Im tired of walking into a room and trying to calculate inside my head, how many of them there areand resenting human beings Ive never met based on my evaluation.
Im tired of assuming the worst in people because the bumper sticker on their car or the red hat atop their head or the channel they get their news from.
Im tired of the impatience and irritability always sitting just below the surface of my countenance, and how often it breaks violently through and into my day in angry words in traffic or expletives spoken under my breath or easy frustration with the normal inconveniences of life.
Im tired of regularly losing my religion as I fight both for and with my faith tradition: being anything but Christlike while advocating for the teachings of Jesus.
Im tired of feeling a growing hopelessness when I see the people were becoming.
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Maybe if we make this world a little bit more loving in the small and the close and the present, maybe the ripples will eventually reach the big and the distant in the future.
Then maybe everyone whos as fully tired of hatred as we arewill finally get some rest.
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Politicians should be helping to bring more peace to our lives, not discord.
KY_EnviroGuy
Jan 2020
#5
A lot of people live for chaos, where if it does not already exist, they have a need to create it.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2020
#8
"On a personal level, I've been trying to give people I meet a chance. I don't write them off...
llmart
Jan 2020
#10