Your Favorite Blockhead!

To give a synopsis on my morning today, I take a look at Facebook, and I stumble across a source posted by one of my more politically-driven friends. For confidentiality, we will call her Nancy (yes, as in Nancy Reagan). After posting an article for her viewers to read, one of her followers begins to personally attack her politically and personally. We shall call this person Doyle. Doyle gets a response from Yours Truly, telling him that he is a bully and how my wife and I feel sorry for him. His response was that I needed to “grow some thicker skin.” Now, to digress for a second, you may realize that my last post was about being conflicted about seeking justice or finding refuge, and a little bit of bullying thrown into the pot. “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,” Thomas Jefferson stated in his 1781 Notes on the State of Virginia. Time Magazine put it this way: “Jefferson was aware of the dichotomy between his idealistic words and the brutalities of slaver...

I do not remember the last time I was so conflicted inside. For the first time since I started blogging, I am not writing because I am full of ideas that correspond, whether they may be in an outlandish or useful way. This time, I am torn in multiple directions, intellectually and spiritually. But one thought comes to mind clearly: It is so easy for us to contextualize what Scripture says, is it not? That being said, I guess that means I will need a Scripture for the basis of this blog, right? Well, I have one. The 21 st Century King James Version of Matthew 26:52 reads, “Then said Jesus unto him, ‘Put up again thy sword into his place, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.’” One of the main topics in the headlines of the news today is bullying. This morning, I happened to catch a portion of the Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda conducting an interview with Kelly Wallace, Chief Correspondent of IVillage and psychologist Jennifer Hartstein. At first, I wa...