Thread by @dianabutlerbass

Well, on this election eve, a few words.

Over the last 4 yrs, I've done my best here to help you thru this storm - lending voice to Christians who have known Trump threatened both our democracy and the beauty of the faith we treasure.

I am so grateful for the friends and allies made in this bleak time. For those who reached over religious, political, and racial boundaries to stand for and act on justice. To embody the better angels of the American soul.

We have formed a great cloud of witnesses.

We have listened to and learned from one another. We have changed in good ways. We've had our hearts broken. But we have remained true to the America we believe can come into being.

Despite in all, we believe in common good, love of neighbor, and decency and kindness.

We've seen people transformed. Voices join in a chorus for good that we never imagined we'd find in harmony. Strangers have supported one another, challenged one another, shared charitably, given of our goods and time to make social and political change.

We have lost some along the way - friends and relatives and co-workers who wanted to be here to vote tomorrow. But they aren't.

Remember them as you vote. Vote for the future and vote in memory of those who brought us here.

You may want to reply with their names below.

We are different than we were four years ago. We take less for granted. We understand the importance of democracy - the need for it to heal and to be expanded. We've seen our shortfalls, where we've betrayed our own ideals. And so many of us want a better America.

Perhaps we fragile humans only know what we truly love when it may be lost. When our myths and illusions fall away and we see each other, our wounds and our capacity to wound, more clearly.

Be not afraid.

You are not alone.

Thank you all for growing in courage. For taking risks for love and justice.

I think in particular of Rachel Held Evans.

You are made, fundamentally, from the good.
With this knowledge, you never march alone.

You are the breaking news of the century.
You are the good who has come forward

Through it all, even if so many days
Feel otherwise.

- Alberto Ríos

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