I Just Don’t Know

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I’ve had to take a mental health break from the news. I realized something went ‘pear-shaped’ (as our cousins across the sea would say) for me when I forced an email discussion with our priest, a Ghanaian who is now a naturalized citizen. The conversation was systemic racism and unconscious bias. He supports Black Lives Matter and I don’t. In the end, I came to myself, so to speak, with the realization that I depend on him for spiritual things, not the latest news headlines and where he stands. He is perfectly well free to believe whatever he wants to, as long as what he preaches is Gospel. We are still friends and I still support his work in our church.

After that discussion is when I took my mental health vacation and focused on puppy videos and curiously talented bird videos and artistic cake decorating videos. The ringing in…

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