I am hoping to post more consistently now but I slid back into AFib awhile back and didn’t feel creative enough to be worth reading. I had an interesting experience yesterday though that might be something to think about.
I wasn’t looking forward to the procedure where they stop and restart the heart. The doctor insisted that the procedure is safe but I didn’t like the idea of “rebooting” my heart.
The interesting thing was, when I woke from anesthesia, I felt better than I had in a long time. Just getting my heart back to its normal rhythm felt great. I had no idea of how badly I was feeling until I had something better to compare it to.
Now here’s my point in telling the story. I believe our nation faces the choice between “rebooting” and dying slowly from denial.
Our nation, for all its noble aspects, was founded on enslaving some of our human family and stealing the land out from underneath others. The passion some of our leaders are showing toward Confederate names and statues is very suspicious when you consider our nation’s undeniable history of racism.
Until we are willing to “reboot” and share our resources more fairly we must numb ourselves to the shame of telling American history by leaving out the grievances of the people who weren’t white.
In his original travel ban, Donald Trump stopped travel from something like 13 nations. ALL of the banned nations consisted of populations where the people were nonwhite. In 2025, Trump added 19 more countries to the travel ban. Unsurprisingly, ALL of those banned nations consist of People of Color.
I don’t think it is necessarily helpful to figure out who is to blame for the increasing weather disasters breaking our hearts, but I DO think it could be very helpful to stop listening to the lies of people who represent nonrenewable energy sources and listen to those who have actually studied the science of climate change. To pollute the earth and then to pray that God will rescue us from the consequences of our own actions is a strange prayer indeed.
It will be painful for some to “reboot” our our economy, our historical narrative and to return to the scientific method in making public polices, but that pain is small compared to the slow death taking place as we live in denial.