Endurance
This is what you need
to run marathons.
I heard a talking head
say that the bombing in Boston is the price we pay for living in a free
society. I disagree strongly with that notion and I for one do not and would
not choose to pay. There has to be a better way. Maybe I am thinking there is
an implied freedom from violence paraphrased in the preamble to the
Constitution, the framework for the freedoms our country is founded upon. We do
live in a free society in the midst of a deeply troubled world and in our midst
there are deeply troubled individuals, members of our free society included. The
dead and injured in Boston didn’t expect to pay the price of freedom with their
lives and futures, yet they did. Sandy Hook and countless other unexplainable and
unfathomable other random acts are more proof of a troubling undercurrent of
violence in our free society whether the threat comes from within or without. Yet
within this pervasive (more than 10 years of it that according to newscasters
we have a whole generation growing up more prepared to deal with impending
terror attacks) culture of violence and yes, terror, seeds of peace and hope
must endure and I know there are countless others that share my abhorrence of
the events of terror that plagued the Boston Marathon and lots of other places
and people near and far from our home. This morning when I went out to feed my
chickens a misting gray fog hung heavily around, shrouding me like feelings of despair and sadness resulting from
the news of yesterday’s tragic events, but the chickens seemed unaffected as
usual, seeming to know that the sun would come up again as long as they endured.
I envy them a little, yet I know there is no true peace in just acting like a
chicken when the sky is falling. I am once again making a stand for peace and
continuing to make my own positive impact on the world through acts of
kindness. I would hope that the spiral of terror and violence could be reversed
in my lifetime but I am not so sure about that so I will work on my endurance.
Endurance, Boston has
this, and the city and its patriots will continue and endure. In times of tragedy
in this country we collectively stand together, support each other, pray, and
endure as our precious freedom endures.
This is what you need
to run marathons.
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