Strength

Musing over what strength is. It's overcoming your weaknesses.

Then you have inherent strength. It has to come with a sense of morality or it would go bad. The Injustice series of comics shows what would happen if Superman went bad. He was almost unstoppable. It took a good Superman from another universe to stop him.

To recognize and overcome our weaknesses yet remain humble cultivates goodness in spite of becoming strong enough that you wouldn't have to stay a good person because no one can stop you.

This scene from Captain America is a favorite about it:

Stalked By Politics

"You used to care about politics! What happened? Are you a sheep now?"

That's not how you win friends or influence people. At one point I was heavily into politics. Now I'm not.

Why? In no particular order:

1. I don't have time to fact-check every claim.
2. It's never cut and dried, always nuanced.
3. I'm burned out from when I was in the fight.
4. I don't have time for this now because my focus is different. 
5. I could jump back in and be a real beast at it, however, politics makes me angry so why pull the trigger and be angry all the time. 
6. Politics are quid pro quo. 
7. Politics are tribal and when people get emotionally involved their reasoning ability goes down.
8. I'm not going to argue with emotional people, its a waste of time.

Instead, I'll focus on my priorities now of following Jesus, husband, teacher, and friend. One of the best decisions I made was turning off the 24/7 news cycle. 

If a friend wants to discuss policy and we can keep it civil, great, I can roll with that. 

I'm just not going to blister the internet like I used too.