A Thanksgiving prayer

If you spend any time on social media, it is easy to see the divisions in our country, in our communities, in our families.   Although every four years, emotions run high and partisan tempers flare, this year did seem different.   I have had good friends literally suffer physically from their profound psychic stress at the outcome of the presidential election.  It is tempting to chuckle at the seemingly overwrought suffering of these "snowflakes" (many of whom are quite well-off from a financia

If you spend any time on social media, it is easy to see the divisions in our country, in our communities, in our families.   Although every four years, emotions run high and partisan tempers flare, this year did seem different.   I have had good friends literally suffer physically from their profound psychic stress at the outcome of the presidential election.  It is tempting to chuckle at the seemingly overwrought suffering of these "snowflakes" (many of whom are quite well-off from a financia…