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THIS LINE IS POWERFUL: "It's easy to convince ourselves that we're motivated by love when what we're actually craving is the flattery of a frictionless existence."

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Thanks for writing this. I'm in a faith community that is currently struggling with some huge and uncomfortable transitions, and reading this is helping me clarify my thoughts. I love these stupid fallible beautiful people so much and also I'm so angry at those stupid fallible beautiful people that are in leadership positions right now. They are meeting this moment (or ten) of struggle with fear instead of curiosity, and want to smooth my/others' anger over instead of take any accountability for the systemic reasons for all the anger. Every time this crisis has come to some sort of breaking point, my response has been to figure out how to package/present my anger in a way that will somehow facilitate change without further threatening fearful leadership and guess how well that's working?

So, I'm going to go eat Fastnacht pancakes with them tonight and see the silliest of silly talent shows (my son is going to do a Kung-Fu demonstration of what he's learned in 6 months of weekly classes and it will be AMAZING and I predict a lot of flailing), and then tomorrow remember that we're all (star) dust with them, and a week from tonight show up at the leadership meeting with the metaphorical bullwhip. COMMUNITY is so EFFING HARD.

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