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Date: November 15, 2017 10:42AM
Why do good people allow bad things to happen? Like aligning yourself with a church that causes so much harm, is so bigoted, carries such an ugly legacy. Are they looking the other way or just not allowing themselves to see the ills?
Why do some apparently nice Mormons give the church a pass on all the ugliness? Is it lack of integrity? Selfishness? Shallowness? Apathy? Or just the deep need to cling to the unusual idea that they are God's special ones--their version of the panacea we desperately need to navigate life?
Every morning I drive down a windy canyon and the morning sky never disappoints with a new plot every day. Lifts my spirits--my kind of panacea.
Then one day right there on the best curve with the best view is a row of the ugliest, most intrusive screaming yellow and black caution signs. They angered me. Only a blind person wouldn't realize there is a curve and drop off there especially after miles of the same. "What government idiot . . . .' I am thinking. I couldn't see past them. They spoiled the view, the respite from the world that I craved. Fly in the ointment. Cockroach in the salad.
BUT. I got used to them. I barely notice them anymore. My eye just goes to the sky again. There were patches of creamy custard with peachy edges coming through a lavender gray this morning.