Notes found rapidly scribbled on a crumpled up napkin on the floor of the White House Correspondents Dinner last night…
Some 2600 people in the room
Right and left, Rep and Dem, men and women, black and white, so much more
Sometimes we forget who’s all in the room
Geesh… we can be so foolish
We act like because of our differences, someone is lesser
Not just lesser but worse
Stupider
Always wrong
Less deserving of God’s goodness
I can’t help but think that if someone other than the officer was shot tonight, half the room, half the media would have cheered
Celebrated
Maybe even justified why for that person it was good
Ugh… our rhetoric is awful so many days
On the left and the right… from the top/all over the place
We’ve justified lying
Bluster, incompetence, impairment, insult
Party has meant more than people
Power has meant more too
All show a lack of wisdom
In me
Let us be wiser
God, I pray
Please
Let me always care about who’s in the room
Let my care surpass any difference or disagreement
Let us be a wiser people
Starting now
Soberly…
AR