Man Johnny, I’m right there with you brother. It’s so hard to look at my grandkids (Madilyn 5, Henry 3, and Brycen 2) and seeing this shit going on everyday, worrying about what the world will look like when they are old enough to engage in society. No telling the trauma they will carry. It is certainly a different world than the one we grew up in. I find myself going over in my head what I will have to do to protect my family and my neighbors, not if, but when they come knocking.
I have a wife, three daughters and a daughter-in-law that would not act as polite as this woman did, and I wonder what I would do if something similar happens to one of them.
And the one thing that’s killing me is that there are people that I have to interact with, some that are family or who I have known all my life that are seemingly fine with this. “If she’d just obeyed…” I can’t believe how many supposed good “Christian” people will make excuses for that bastards actions, no matter what. I can’t…..
Thank you. You wrote the words right from so many of our hearts. It is hard as hell to reconcile the routine moments of life and hopes and laughter with the threats, hatred and violence that occur around us. It is a new way of being that still seems unimaginable. And gets worse with every day it seems. And the sun still shines and babies are still born and love still holds us all. Trying to hold all these things at once is beyond difficult.
There is a lot of unsettling things happening right now, but your words provide a level of comfort, because there are others like me and hopefully enough to curtail this process.
Man Johnny, I’m right there with you brother. It’s so hard to look at my grandkids (Madilyn 5, Henry 3, and Brycen 2) and seeing this shit going on everyday, worrying about what the world will look like when they are old enough to engage in society. No telling the trauma they will carry. It is certainly a different world than the one we grew up in. I find myself going over in my head what I will have to do to protect my family and my neighbors, not if, but when they come knocking.
I have a wife, three daughters and a daughter-in-law that would not act as polite as this woman did, and I wonder what I would do if something similar happens to one of them.
And the one thing that’s killing me is that there are people that I have to interact with, some that are family or who I have known all my life that are seemingly fine with this. “If she’d just obeyed…” I can’t believe how many supposed good “Christian” people will make excuses for that bastards actions, no matter what. I can’t…..
Thank you, Johnny. You helped me process this abominable act.
Thank you. You wrote the words right from so many of our hearts. It is hard as hell to reconcile the routine moments of life and hopes and laughter with the threats, hatred and violence that occur around us. It is a new way of being that still seems unimaginable. And gets worse with every day it seems. And the sun still shines and babies are still born and love still holds us all. Trying to hold all these things at once is beyond difficult.
There is a lot of unsettling things happening right now, but your words provide a level of comfort, because there are others like me and hopefully enough to curtail this process.