There are days to make comments on the issues of the day and there are days when the issues are too personal, painful, and powerful to come down on one side or the other.
Those are the days when we become channels of grace, love, and compassion and enter into the pain of every man, woman, and child with a sense of common humanity, common concern, and common commitment to some core values we all share.
Such are days when we overcome our fear that others will use the day to their advantage.
Such are days when we resist the temptation to take advantage. Though our convictions are strong, we respect that those of our neighbor are just as strong, sincere, and based upon personal integrity and perspective. In the end, this world and nation will not rise and fall on our politics.
We have survived many a shift and will survive many more.
We will survive on our good will and God's grace and nothing we say or do about our opinions will bolster or alter that.
We are one people and we stand in sympathy and solidarity with our neighbors. (and thank God I still can't remember which is a blue state and which is a red state and hope I never will!)
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