#progressive thought

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[spiritbynature]

When you feel stuck, change your space.

[fluffynailz-blog]

Like shaw,guess I’ve been tryin to force my own sense of equilibrium and I may be failing.

Really liked this pic tho

[spiritbynature]

Healing.

In order to feel better, one must experience emotional clarity. If you are bogged down by suffering, anger, bitterness or emotional baggage, which weighs down the spirit, the spirit cannot move to higher ground. So, begin on the journey to forgive yourself, to forgive others, and to feel what you must and let those feelings that do not serve you go. There is freedom in emotional release and cleansing. Make that room for your healing.

[spiritbynature]

“Your reality is like a radio. If you want something different, change the station.”

- Unknown

[swordsman2009]

Has it ever occurred to the American judicial system and those who obey laws, that it is their fault America was never great?

Answer (1 of 2): What occurs to ne after reading your question that to people like the OP, America should simply ignore its greatness so tha

It's not the immigrants, LGBTQ, Liberals, Anarchists, Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Women, Children, Books, Homeless or people with Disabilities that are not at fault for why American was never great or why Trump got in both times.

It was those of you who who work in the American courts that are fault, juries included.

You are to blame for this, just as you deserved to be blamed when the Trump regime is over with, just as you deserved to be blame before is time in office.

You and you alone deserve to answer for this.

No one else.

Just you.

[faithvoiceofreason]

Feeling Lost

I feel as if we have lost sight, as Christians, of what it means to truly follow Christ. There. I said it. For most Christians, at least for those in the US, we've never had to deal with the persecution about which Jesus speaks to his disciples and followers. We have been the majority religion for so long that we have begun to see persecution in the oddest places. "You want be to bake a cake for a gay wedding? Why are you persecuting me?" "I have to respect people of color because of inherent racism and white privilege? But I'm not a racist!" "Muslims tried to destroy us on 9/11. Islam is a religion of violence and anger and terror. Why are you trying to tell me that I have to be more sensitive?" Our inability to see past our own complacency has created a brand of Christianity that, even when we are trying to be progressive and tolerant, cannot embrace the 'other' because we see ourselves as suffering by having to deal with "those hateful conservatives." When will we see that in order to truly follow Jesus we must give up our ivory tower, elitist intellectualism and embrace the radical roots of our faith that call for us to be inclusive of ALL of God's children, even those with whom we cannot agree?

[jethomme]

If I had to pinpoint a single message that emerged from this protest, it was the need for Americans to develop a much deeper sense of empathy with all types of socially and economically disadvantaged groups, including people of color, women, the disabled, immigrants, and the poor.

counterpunch, Anthony DiMaggio