Dear Hatred, From Love

[Tennesseer]

Dear Hatred, From Love

JUNE 28, 2023 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ

Dear Hatred,

I trust this letter finds you well.

Actually, from the look of things out there, business is booming for you lately. I’ve got to hand it to you, you’ve managed to keep yourself in the news pretty steadily and these days that’s no small feat. Your ability to reinvent yourself is a credit to your persistence and to you knowing your audience. I’ll confess, your brand is a whole lot stronger than I’d realized. Somehow you’ve been able to leverage all that fear out there into a pretty impressive little cottage industry.

To be honest, I’ve been in a pretty deep funk with all that’s happening, myself. For a while I’ve been struggling to find any real momentum: one step forward, eighteen steps back. I’d started to think maybe I was obsolete, like I’d finally become passé; destined to be a dusty relic of the past and relegated to faded t-shirts and power ballads. I was seriously considering calling it a day.

But this morning I remembered something: I. Am. Love.

I am the glorious, beautiful response to all the havoc you wreak out there; the relentless dawn that chases away your heavy darkness.
I resurrect all the hope that you seek to destroy.
I am the defiant middle finger raised in the face of death and evil and your pervasive lie that Humanity is beyond saving.
I am the redemptive song that people keep finding a way to sing together no matter how difficult the days become.

Sure, maybe I’ve had a rough stretch lately but I’ve been through this all a million times before and I’ve always been able to answer you.

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[tallguy]

All of these phony "Christians" on the far-right should be forced to read John Pavlovitz columns every day.