Bereft

Today I came across ugly words on social media between people I love.  People who have held a spot in my heart in the last twenty years of my life – we went to church together, we did life together, we believed in Jesus together.   We cried together.  We laughed together.  But today … what I read between them, broke my heart.

Anger over the President’s words today – one calling him a dictator for his strong commands to the country’s governors.  The other saying, we need to see the truth of the situation for what it is.  Two opposing sides, but both having professed to love Jesus in my own personal past.  And I sat back stunned at the ugliness of the words in the exchange.

I shouldn’t be stunned though.  That’s humanity.  And bereft of Jesus, that is what we become.  Ugly.

This post was written in June of 2020.

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