This election is devastating. I say this as a straight white Christian girl who is relatively buffered from the rest of the effects. I am angry, and I am upset, and I am grieving
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It's a beautiful metaphor, and an apt one. I feel almost helpless sometimes, because I don't have it in me to go out and fight, and it's good to be reminded that support and succor are also valuable. Count me in as part of the shieldwall.
I woke up this morning and saw a post on a friend's feed about all the hate crimes that have been taking place in the last 36 hours. And my hands shook.
We can all fight back, even if it's only to give such people safe spaces. I'm going to be more active in local shelters and organisations; I can't help the US, but I can work on things here.
Thank God we had our elections earlier this year. We have at least another three years before they come around again, and while the government could certainly get bad, I'm hoping there's a shred of decency left in them...
I sent an e-mail to the local Islamic community center, offering my support and my prayers. I did it last year, around this time, because of something Donald Trump had said then. I haven't heard back yet. I'm praying that this time they have more supporters writing them, but I'm so worried for them, and I live in Maryland, which went overwhelmingly for Hillary state-wide. And so many other groups are just as scared and vulnerable.
I'm worried about my disabled sister, and her medical bills if Trump decides to slash Medicare/Medicaid and replace it with some sort of Health Savings Account/Catastrophic Insurance like he's talked about. And my friends who are diabetic, my brother-in-law with kidney failure, my friends with mental health conditions who need access to support and counseling and just watched that potentially get torpedoed.
Making things better in any one tiny corner helps the whole world bend towards justice. I have to believe that.
I can and will pray for America, and for my vulnerable friends who are non-white, non-Christian, non-straight, and prone to the whimsy of whether the ACA lives or dies.
And as Christians, it's going to be really rough. Our neighbours may very well not want our love (not that they ever did), but they're certainly not going to want to hear what God has done for them...
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We might not be entirely safe space, but we can do our best to make spaces safer and to stand with our friends.
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We can all fight back, even if it's only to give such people safe spaces. I'm going to be more active in local shelters and organisations; I can't help the US, but I can work on things here.
Thank God we had our elections earlier this year. We have at least another three years before they come around again, and while the government could certainly get bad, I'm hoping there's a shred of decency left in them...
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I'm worried about my disabled sister, and her medical bills if Trump decides to slash Medicare/Medicaid and replace it with some sort of Health Savings Account/Catastrophic Insurance like he's talked about. And my friends who are diabetic, my brother-in-law with kidney failure, my friends with mental health conditions who need access to support and counseling and just watched that potentially get torpedoed.
Making things better in any one tiny corner helps the whole world bend towards justice. I have to believe that.
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And as Christians, it's going to be really rough. Our neighbours may very well not want our love (not that they ever did), but they're certainly not going to want to hear what God has done for them...
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Thank you for the prayers. They are definitely needed.
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