From John Pavlovitz: America Chose the Monster

I am again passing along an article from one of America's sanest, most beneficent minds.

Every one of us can recall times when our judgment was temporarily clouded; when our emotions betrayed us in a moment of weakness or fear or misplaced anger.

In the rearview mirror, we see clearly those moments when we chose horribly and later found ourselves embarrassed and ashamed to realize what we'd done. Such regret is universal, as is the desire to escape culpability when it rises up.

But there comes a time when we run out of excuses, when we can no longer plead ignorance or impulsiveness or having been duped, when we have to own our poor decisions and declare our error. In such circumstances, to not do so would be to willingly repeat the transgression or to prove ourselves more committed to perpetuating a lie than admitting the ugly truth we see in the mirror.

—John Pavlovitz

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America Chose the Monster