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Rev Jeff Black

24 Dec, 12 tweets, 2 min read

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ChristmasEve2020

1/ So here we are on Christmas Eve -- either isolated or risking life itself to see one another. We watch the President bring down chaos on our land, block any attempt to provide help for those afflicted by a virulent pandemic...

2/...pardon his fellow criminals, threaten to close down our government, surround himself with felons and goons, ignore the hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions upon millions of sickened people this plague has caused.

3/ I know, as do you, that this is an hour of wide-spread suffering. Hundreds of thousands of us have lost our jobs. Tens of thousands of us are about to lose our homes, about to have no place to lay our heads at night.

4/ Our President’s narcissism is so compelling and so enormous that he keeps most of our attention on him rather than the victims of his mad misrule.

5/ Trump’s narcissism is so endless that he has absorbed all the media attention, even as the massive suffering he is causing goes largely unreported. Heedless, he boards his plane to go to the gilded Mara Lago and spend his restless, guilt-driven nights tweeting insults.

6/ What lies behind all this evil? Why is this obviously wicked behavior empowered by the Republican Party? I watched Morning Joe, hoping for insight. The reporters bemoaned it, which was of some small comfort, but then they showed it...

7/ ..What accounts for the delirious adoration of Donald Trump by 70 million? I looked at the standard clip of a MAGA rally. All White.They are, either consciously or unconsciously reasserting that old lie of White Dominance.

8/ Life spent with Trump’s values is exhausting; it’s exhausting even to watch, let alone to live. More money for the already comfortable is not the answer.

9/The child whose birth we celebrate tomorrow came to us to teach something altogether different:

10/.. “Come to me, all who are burdened and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls.” (Matthew 11” 28-29)

11/ God, who has called us into being, and who has provided this abundant world, who became a Child to experience our life and to radiate love to us, will see us through.

12/ At Christmas this year, I remind us that: Angels in the Bible start their messages with these two words: “Fear Not!”; Justice arrives on the wings of Radical Lovingkindness.

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1/ While we hang around waiting for the ballot counting to finish, I thought I’d speculate about what lies ahead. Of course I don’t know anything, but that has never stopped me before.

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1/ This morning, as I listened to @Morning_Joe, I was moved by the pain of @DonnyDeutch as he compared Trump’s speech at the Pittsburgh rally to Hitler’s speeches in the 1930’s.

2/ When I was 19, a sophomore at Hamilton College in upstate NY, my roommate, Nelson, was the only non-white in our class. (This was 56 years ago.) A man named George Lincoln Rockwell came to Hamilton and gave a speech in our theater. ...

3/..Rockwell was the only prominent self-professed Fascist in America in those days. I went to the speech. Rockwell said, “We have this Civil Rights Movement. How about a civil rights movement for real Americans?”

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2/ My associate, Mike, was doing a service at a local school. Barbara called and said a plane had crashed in NYC. She called again and said my sister was really upset because Tom Brokaw was saying it was an attack.

3/ Mike was on his way to the office and could tell something was wrong. He called and asked me if I knew what was going on. I said we had been attacked. I told him to go home to his family...

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2/ Holy S***!

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1/ Along the rural roads near my home, I see lots of Trump signs. One that’s quite popular in Trumplandia says “Trump in 2020! No more Bulls**t!”. Sorta leaves you speechless, doesn’t it?

2/ We don’t control the world. We can’t. Off in some cave in a remote province of China, deep in a crevasse, a bat was sleeping away when suddenly, in a vein, a tiny virus molecule mutated. How tiny? 20,000 of them could sit in your throat and you would not feel them.

3/ Within a little more than a year, 5 million Americans would become sickened by that virus. 160,000 of us--and more than a million of our fellow humans world-wide--would die a terrible death from that virus. So far.

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1/ I loved seeing John when he was, I think,77, crowd-surfing on a Stephen Colbert show. He was then a little older than I am now. Letting strangers keep you aloft just on their hands is an act of faith not just in God but in humanity.

2/ The writer, Jon Meacham, who knew Lewis up close and who knows something about history, has been saying that John was a saintly person. I second the motion.

3/ Not only was John Lewis a good man, and a just man -- he was a holy man. That is to say he was simultaneously courageous, courteous to all, candid about being fallible, humble, fun -- and loving every person while demanding justice, especially in this hour of our corruption.

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