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Life’s Gray Areas
Posted by Wallace+
Tomorrow I'll share with you some excerpts from some of the many responses I got to last week's WFGS (once I get permission from folks). In the meantime, I recommend "Life's Gray Areas," by Leonard Pitts. Pitts does it again. Powerful. Check it out.
EXCERPT:
... none of us is consistent on these issues of life and death, all of us
ignoring truths that indict our deep convictions, striking bargains
with conscience in the name of a good night’s sleep.
Into that irresolution falls the execution of John Allen Muhammad.
And what am I to say? I hate the death penalty, but this guy’s rampage touched my life, frightened my children, so I’m OK with it? What kind of sense does that make?
None, of course. It is, if anything, just proof of my humanity — and all the contradictions attendant thereto. It is our nature to seek certitude and resolution, but life is messy and untidy, doesn’t always fit neatly into the boxes we build for it. There are days when being staunch offers no clarity, days when certitudes feel like platitudes and you can no more grab resolution than you can grab smoke.
Click here to read the full article: "Wandering in Life's Gray Areas".
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