How do I keep my faith during wartime? I’m not sure how I’d keep my faith if my country were invaded, my family slaughtered, my home bombed or my loved ones rounded up and sent to concentration camps—I can only imagine.
But I do know how I struggle to keep my faith—and my sanity—during a war that my country is waging, one that I have done everything I could think of to prevent and to end, one which has lost support of the vast majority of the American people, and one which is still, every day, taking the lives of Iraquis and our own soldiers, squandering the resources we need for health and justice in this country, and leaving a swathe of destruction in the Middle East.
I ask myself, every day, “What can I do to stop this war?” And I do whatever I can—sometimes something big, sometimes something small.
Then I let myself feel the pain, the rage, the grief, the guilt, the frustration, and the anguish, and let the feelings flow. Emotions are energy, and energy is lifeforce, the counter to death.
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