God Blessed America.
If you don't believe America is guided by divine forces towards the greater good, the country makes no sense. Our founding fathers grasped this. Our veterans grasped this. Now we must all grasp it.
It is vital to ask why anyone would endure “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”––assassination attempts, slander, political persecution, censorship, vicious misrepresentations of policy and rhetoric, and diabolical attempts by partisan prosecutors to bankrupt him, his friends, and his family––to again become President of these United States? When Donald Trump shouted, “Fight, fight, fight!” after being glazed by a white rager’s bullet, he was saying, “Fight for this country, fight for what it believes, never give up.”
It’s not that these literal and figurative trials we’ve endured these past four years should not have happened. They needed to happen. You cannot understand Trump's resurrection without understanding the greater arc of his and our journey. -
I don’t talk or write much about religion. My parents taught me well that one is not showy about spirituality. It is personal, intimate, and cheapened by proselytizing or overt demonstrations. I have carried that belief into my adult life as my Catholic upbringing has neatly merged with my Zen Buddhist practice, rigorous study of the classics, and ot…
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