Where was _____________? Why wasn’t he there? He should have been there!
I admire the expectations of a title or position, but they should be lightheaded by now, or burned to a crisp for being too close to the Sun. Sometimes it’s best to save your energy, be realistic, and lower them. No one is still expecting some people to do the right thing on their own, are they? Have they not shown you who they are? Some people need a Pharaoh experience to motivate them to do right—even then, they’ll still be hateful and determined to harm others. Those who blindly follow a poor leader, or a willfully ignorant and destructive individual, need a Pharaoh experience, too.
America doesn’t have a political problem. It has a heart problem.
Today’s remembrance of beloved Georgia Congressman, and civil rights giant, John R. Lewis was powerful. For any leader to have been in attendance, yet go back to injustice, criminality, and apathy as usual would be a sin and a shame.
I hope someone left the ceremony with a change of heart and mind.
Even a compromised man would show up where a good man is being honored. He at least wants to convince himself that he still has a spine and empathy left. He won’t reject hearing what he, too, can still be and do. He may be uncomfortable as he listens to the praise of the good man. He may think of his own mortality and legacy, and how he has lived his own life; what causes he fought for; what good he has done. He might feel the judgment in the room; he may feel like a hypocrite, but he won’t run from conviction. Even if he and the good man didn’t always see eye to eye, he can’t deny the greatness of the good man, and the positive impact made on the world. Even he will miss the good man.
An evil man won’t bother showing up. Goodness repels him. His arrogance won’t allow him to sit still as the good man is remembered. He knows his future offers no such honor. His presence would be a laughable distraction.
Leadership matters. Good men honor good men.
I admire the expectations of a title or position, but they should be lightheaded by now, or burned to a crisp for being too close to the Sun. Sometimes it’s best to save your energy, be realistic, and lower them. No one is still expecting some people to do the right thing on their own, are they? Have they not shown you who they are? Some people need a Pharaoh experience to motivate them to do right—even then, they’ll still be hateful and determined to harm others. Those who blindly follow a poor leader, or a willfully ignorant and destructive individual, need a Pharaoh experience, too.
America doesn’t have a political problem. It has a heart problem.
Today’s remembrance of beloved Georgia Congressman, and civil rights giant, John R. Lewis was powerful. For any leader to have been in attendance, yet go back to injustice, criminality, and apathy as usual would be a sin and a shame.
I hope someone left the ceremony with a change of heart and mind.
Even a compromised man would show up where a good man is being honored. He at least wants to convince himself that he still has a spine and empathy left. He won’t reject hearing what he, too, can still be and do. He may be uncomfortable as he listens to the praise of the good man. He may think of his own mortality and legacy, and how he has lived his own life; what causes he fought for; what good he has done. He might feel the judgment in the room; he may feel like a hypocrite, but he won’t run from conviction. Even if he and the good man didn’t always see eye to eye, he can’t deny the greatness of the good man, and the positive impact made on the world. Even he will miss the good man.
An evil man won’t bother showing up. Goodness repels him. His arrogance won’t allow him to sit still as the good man is remembered. He knows his future offers no such honor. His presence would be a laughable distraction.
Leadership matters. Good men honor good men.
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