I am fighting tears of frustration at this moment. I could probably avoid the whole mess if I cut out all social media, but I like to see pics of people's dogs and plants, and falls. I want to know how big your babies and grand babies are and what great things they are doing. And something is screwing it up.
I take pride in the fact that I have friends of every race, color, political view, sexual orientation, religion, you name it, I probably know one. I love to have conversations with people different from me, about whatever topic comes. Key word CONVERSATIONS. And I can with most of my people. But lately, it seems that people have lost the ability to communicate without generalizing, and blaming. Yes, I am a middle aged white woman, so I would have presumably never felt the sting of racism, right? WRONG. I'm not a lesbian, or transgender, or the child of lesbian parents, so I must be unable to empathize with the struggles, private and public of people living their lives this way, right? WRONG.
Let me just tell you, no one gets a pass anymore. I've been judged for not breast feeding, for being a working mom, for being in law enforcement, for being married to a cop, for being a gun owner, for being a dog owner, just to name a few. Living in this country means that we get to do A LOT of what we want to. Everything, no, of course not. But for the most part, I believe that our country gets it right more than it gets it wrong. It just seems to me that when it gets it wrong, people are WAY MORE WILLING to point fingers and place blame. And that gets nothing fixed.
My main point is this, if you see something wrong, do something to fix it. Posting a blame and hate filled diatribe on an Instagram post from your safe home with power, water, Internet, and the significant other that you get to choose, doesn't make a difference. Educate yourself at the very least.
Finally, we all have those things we are unbending about, and we should. I don't post on social media about most of my political views. I don't give my opinion on vaccines. BUT. I will forever support properly trained and supported law enforcement. Without it, we are a lost nation.
And I am a Christian. The Jeses I love and believe in loves and died for EVERY SINGLE PERSON. His command was simply. love everyone. If you have a conflict with this, then you have a conflict with a church, or a religion, or were treated badly by a person. But Jesus said to love everyone. Not the ones like you, or that agree with you. Any church t aching this is wrong. Try another church.
I'm just exhausted by everyone looking for someone to blame ALL THE TIME.
