A Blessing My Running Has Brought Me
Running for public office for the first time is certainly challenging. But the experience has already also bestowed considerable blessings on me.
One of these blessings has been a healing of a wound I suffered in recent years in my connection with humanity.
I was brought up to have a love for humanity and, more than that, to place a very high value on that love.
It was my mother especially who conveyed this value. She felt strongly that one could find fine human qualities in people of all kind, that what was most to be cherished in human beings is a beauty of soul that can be found in people of all colors and classes and religions and nationalities.
Read MoreA Message to Loyal Republicans: Loyalty Should be a Two-way Street
I know that many people in our 6th District consistently vote Republican. It’s a matter of party loyalty. I myself regard loyalty as a great virtue. I am loyal to my friends, and I am faithful to my wife, and I still root for the teams from where I lived as a boy.
There Is an “It”
There’s probably a good reason why politicians generally stick with simple messages about the immediate issues found on the surface of things. Most everyone encourages me to do that more.
But I am convinced that we will meet the profound challenge of our present crisis only to the extent that we grasp a reality that’s neither simple nor superficial.
So as the non-politician candidate, I am going to speak about the force that gives rise to much of what we see on the surface of contemporary events, and that can be seen only by putting the pieces together and seeing things whole.
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