Our car has a common safety feature. When the system perceives danger in the driver’s path, it will apply the brakes and flash tiny red lights in the field of vision.
This feature is often helpful.
It is, also, often wrong. A non-conscious system throws on the brakes to “protect us” from a danger that is not there.
Our brains can do this too, every day… amplifying social slights or sorting ideological difference as active threats to be countered. These misperceptions then create divisions small and large. This does not lead to an abundant life.
Without grace and a commitment to be mindful of this reality, I don’t think we can overcome it.
Let’s pray for the grace to get close enough to love.
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