As the Mass on Sunday proceeded, the Gospel reading brought me some small understanding.
Most of us can see with our eyes, but we lack full understanding - the mental ability to "See" into the hearts and minds of evil ones around us.
The world is not so happily arranged that our understanding can discern the evil in people who choose darkness over light - hence the need for leadership that liberates and heals rather than stifle and wound.
Should tragedies of terror and horror be exploited for political purposes? Should presidents lament unforeseeable fear and bloodshed because they divert our eyes and ears from the presidential political message or because real innocent human beings have suffered horrifically and irreversibly and those who have survived yearn for the balm that only a true leader who has genuine empathetic understanding can bring? Should the president's bully pulpit be used to divide and polarize or to unify and uplift?
Each of us is a modern-day Bartimaeus - seeking that other sight, the one we call understanding.
Restraint produces introspection and understanding and respect for the opinions of those who disagree.
Like the persistence of the sightless beggar Bartimaeus, a divided federal government just might produce more understanding for more people - and perhaps some presidential self-restraint - and then the binding of many wounds.
http://www.judgenap.com/post/presidential-vision-and-self-restraint
Most of us can see with our eyes, but we lack full understanding - the mental ability to "See" into the hearts and minds of evil ones around us.
The world is not so happily arranged that our understanding can discern the evil in people who choose darkness over light - hence the need for leadership that liberates and heals rather than stifle and wound.
Should tragedies of terror and horror be exploited for political purposes? Should presidents lament unforeseeable fear and bloodshed because they divert our eyes and ears from the presidential political message or because real innocent human beings have suffered horrifically and irreversibly and those who have survived yearn for the balm that only a true leader who has genuine empathetic understanding can bring? Should the president's bully pulpit be used to divide and polarize or to unify and uplift?
Each of us is a modern-day Bartimaeus - seeking that other sight, the one we call understanding.
Restraint produces introspection and understanding and respect for the opinions of those who disagree.
Like the persistence of the sightless beggar Bartimaeus, a divided federal government just might produce more understanding for more people - and perhaps some presidential self-restraint - and then the binding of many wounds.
http://www.judgenap.com/post/presidential-vision-and-self-restraint
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