. . . and as chaotic and scary and violent as these times are that we live in now
there are also spaces of clarity and reassurance and love and hope and peace
but the thing is, none of these things just happen
no, they all require our attention, our participation—either we are calling out the shenanigans or being helpmates of evil
and there is little room to try to live in between these poles and think we can wait it out
or act like it does not matter that we have decided to do nothing
either we are a part of helping this world be what it can be and take a consecrated turn to the new heaven and new earth or be the doo wop pom pom squad of inequity as we cheer on calculated wickedness
for it takes each of us, doing whatever it is we are doing, or failing to do, to bring in either peace and hope or wreck and ruin
so, which will you choose?. . .
