Despite having always been a proponent of facing tragedy and finding ways to move through it, I’m tempted to put some platitudes on paper tonight, find a few good quotes, and leave it at that. But I must say that when Hillary Clinton lost the election in 2016, it was a much tougher event for me to face than when I had lost a leg two years before. Last night, when Kamala Harris lost the presidential election, it was much more difficult than any event many of have faced in our lifetimes. And yet we must. Moments ago, I read the following quote by Victor Frankl: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom." I pray for that freedom tonight …
“I judge all things as I would have them be. Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. And then it makes of it what you would have it be. It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely. Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to Him Who has a different use for it. He will relieve us of the agony of all the judgments we have made against ourselves, and re-establish peace of mind by giving us God’s Judgment of His Son.
“Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment of the Son You love. We do not know him, and we cannot judge. And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your Son must be.”
A Course in Miracles W-311.1:1–2:3
“One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself;' annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry,--whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 340: 23-29
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