A Wing and a Prayer

A wing and a prayer
or
the enemy
(this has to stop)

God lift me from the intolerable burden of my ignorance, arrogance, wilful blindness, bitterness and resentment

As I pray that others rise above the same faults and temptations

I watched Fox News release a message this week:

There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you

And coming for us

And then I watched the Democrats respond in panic and anger, saying:

There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you

And coming for us

Are there terrible things afoot, bubbling under the surface?
Is something coming for you?
And for us?

Ask yourself how true that is of yourself and your own life

Have you addressed all that?

Are you concerning yourself with the dust in your enemy’s eyes, instead of attending to the filth that obscures your own sight?

Do we want accusation, suspicion, discord, derision and hatred?

Or the peace and prosperity and happiness that beckons to us at this moment like never before?

Who’s the enemy here?

Is it the basket of deplorables?
Is it the freaks and the queers?

Is it the plumbers and carpenters and tradesmen and managers who work honestly and diligently during the day and the soldiers who stalwartly defend the borders and protect us?

Is it the artists and visionaries whose expressions of unbridled creativity entertain and rejuvenate us and who continually offer to us an unending panoply of technological miracle?

Is it the institutions that guide and protect us that so many lived and died to erect and establish which for all their faults have served us so well?

Do we want revenge or justice?
Do we want contempt or mercy?
Do we want war—or peace?

And what are you aiming at in your heart of hearts?

I see even the best of men degenerating into the exchange of blows.
I see even the best of men identifying the enemy in our neighbours and friends.
I see even the b..