{"id":1698,"date":"2021-11-03T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2021-11-03T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:44:34","slug":"is-there-no-balm-in-gilead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/is-there-no-balm-in-gilead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There No Balm in Gilead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;There is a balm in Gilead&#039;.\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fcMxI_6xsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We do not need to be cured.<br \/>\nWe need to be healed.<br \/>\nHealed from the grief<br \/>\nand despair<br \/>\nof all that has been lost.<br \/>\nBut mostly we need to heal<br \/>\ninto hope<br \/>\ninto believing<br \/>\nthat what is to come<br \/>\ncan be better.<\/p>\n<p>To heal<br \/>\nwe must give up privilege<br \/>\nbut refuse to release it<br \/>\nto those who use their<br \/>\nwhite privilege<br \/>\nto spew\u00a0hate.<br \/>\nWe must use<br \/>\nwhatever privilege we have<br \/>\nto end privilege.<\/p>\n<p>To heal from fear<br \/>\nour souls need<br \/>\nthe balm\u00a0of forgiveness<br \/>\neven though<br \/>\nthere is much<br \/>\nwe may not yet<br \/>\nbe able\u00a0to forgive.<\/p>\n<p>We need to be healed<br \/>\nfrom the betrayal<br \/>\nof \u00a0our nation<br \/>\nand \u00a0our neighbors.<br \/>\nHealed from the betrayal of<br \/>\nthose who choose<br \/>\nalienation\u00a0and hatred,<br \/>\nover\u00a0values<br \/>\nwe once\u00a0sought to share.<\/p>\n<p>We need to heal<br \/>\nfrom despair.<br \/>\ninto hope.<br \/>\nHope empowers<br \/>\nus\u00a0to make change<br \/>\nand\u00a0to love our neighbors,<br \/>\nseeming enemies, all.<\/p>\n<p>The balm we seek<br \/>\nmay be the balm we reject.<br \/>\nLove, the life-giving intention<br \/>\nfor all creation,<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t fuel our fear.<br \/>\nLove casts out<br \/>\nthe fear\u00a0to act<br \/>\nto stand<br \/>\nto speak<br \/>\nto keep on keeping on.<\/p>\n<p>Love is the balm that heals us.<br \/>\nDamn it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We do not need to be cured. We need to be healed. Healed from the grief and despair of all that has been lost. But mostly we need to heal into hope into believing that what is to come can be better. To heal we must give up privilege but refuse to release it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/is-there-no-balm-in-gilead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is There No Balm in Gilead?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,21,25,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}