Do you love ‘love’ with the same passion and commitment you hate ‘hate’?
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Earlier this year had the opportunity to spend 1.5 days with someone at “work”.
We were together 40% of the time.
He said “Jesus Christ” twice. He said it in the same context someone uses for traditional American profanity: exasperation, frustration, contempt, etc.
He also said it in the same reactionary way most people use profanity: unplanned, contemptuously, indiscriminately, non-empathetically (apathetically).
He’s Jewish and has deep family history traced back to the holocaust. Four generations. His family’s story made me teary-eyed.
i shared how much i hate ‘hate’ and told the thesis of the movie Green Mile’s supporting-lead character. Not Tom Hanks, but the jailed black man with a special gift.
My teary eyes, i explained, were from my earnest attempt to suck the negativity, the fear, the oppressor’s hate, the pain, from his soul.
In no way is there an implication, then or now, that i could replicate the Green Mile’s jailed character’s insanely unique gift to rid a cancerous person of their cancer.
But you know i’ve always said, don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can.
It was seeing the photo (above) that inspired this post.
While i am not looking forward to it happening again, the pattern is foundational (in my opinion) so i do expect it to happen again.
Praying for wisdom to confront it in the most loving, Green Mile fashion.
Wish me luck, divine wisdom and divine guidance.
Note: In 30+ years at Disney, never used a single curse word.
Bonus note: However, i know how to swear. Was once a High-Schooler in a locker room five days a week.
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