To every thing there is a season

To every thing there is a season - Bill Wilson -

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Ecclesiastes 3 begins with "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." Verse 4 says, "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance." Verse 7 says, "A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak." These are good words. They are reverent words. Sound advice. There is a time-in other words, there is not only a time for something to occur, like mourning after a loss of a loved one, but also a time when something is appropriate, such as when to keep silence and when to speak. It has to do with discerning what is before you. Sometimes it is good to allow the moment to play out from a position of respect and honor.

 

For example, it is appropriate for a leader, such as a president, to make remarks of sympathy and condolence when a tragedy occurs. It is also appropriate to reach out to the families to comfort them. President Donald Trump has done both. In his statement immediately after the shootings in Texas and Ohio, he said, "In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul." How can he be more direct than that? He also has visited those who were wounded at their respective hospitals and has respected the families who are mourning their losses.

 

It is inappropriate for leaders to use the tragedy for political gain. Immediately, those with whom Trump disagrees politically began raising images of the Ku Klux Klan, and saying that Trump incited the killers to act, that Trump has a racist campaign. And many people believe it. But is this the time and place for such noise? The immediate past president took a swipe at Trump, saying, "We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments; leaders who demonize those who don't look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people." As he so often does, however, he was stating the obvious even about his own leaders.

 

The constant visceral coming from the mouths of politicians who believe that just disagreeing with "those who don't look like us" is bigotry or racism irrespective of the issue cannot be ignored. It is these people who have been banging the cymbal the loudest. Presidents and politicians cannot control what mentally ill hatemongers do to others. They are the outliers who potentially are triggered by rhetoric. In Dayton and El Paso, there were radicals on the extremes of the left and the right who killed innocents. It should be a lesson to all who have denigrated disagreement to such base and weaponized terms. Leaders should be bridge-builders, not vessels of hate over political disagreements. But, then again, to every thing there is a season. This one is a sad season that could be ended by responsible and respectful behavior.

 

 

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