love trumps hate.

so here's the deal... and this will be my one and only post about this... facebook is unbearable which is incredibly unfortunate because i love keeping in touch with family and friends; so i am conflicted. do i leave facebook. do i delete everyone that is having a hard time with our new president and is actively posting about it. do i hide everyone with differing belief systems? i don't want too. i have a very busy life. i don't have many friends that i get to see on a regular basis. (that's not saying i don't have friends here - i do. each of us are super busy and hanging out gets pushed to the back burner.) couple that with the fact that everyone in my family has been sick or is still sick which has made it difficult to make plans anyway. so i have felt very isolated recently. facebook helps me to feel connected. which, i love and hate... because, like i already said, facebook is unbearable currently... 

why is facebook so bad right now? simply put: we have a new president and everyone/thing seems to be unraveling. and that's where i want to focus the rest of this entry...

i have hope and love for our country. trump is our president, and i hope that he will become an amazing president who helps our country to flourish. i'm not going to walk around with fire and pitchforks, screaming and protesting at EVERY thing i disagree with. i'm not going to cheer at failures and point fingers and laugh. doing that is akin to hating the pilot of you're plane and hoping he fails. if the pilot fails, the plane crashes and everyone is affected. i am not going to hope our president fails; i don't want us all to suffer.

instead, i'm purposing in my heart and mind to follow the words that LOVE TRUMPS HATE. i'm hoping to help our commander in chief by working at a local level and attempt to better the city, county, state that i live in. (granted... that's a VERY difficult thing to do in the state of california...) i am a wife and a mom. i am helping to raise an amazing little boy and precious little girl. i want to lead by positive example with a heart full of love and hope. i want to rise above any fear or anxiety or disagreements i may have and help. even if the only way i can do that is by raising loving and beautifully compassionate children who will in turn, fill the world with love and compassion. i will do what i can.

we don't have to all agree on the issues - but i hope and pray that a consistent level of care and compassion will be seen across the political lines. so many people are chanting love trumps hate and then in the same breath screaming F@#* TRUMP... those are two of the most contradictory statements and it's showing the level of hypocrisy across the board. let's make the words "love trumps hate" a reality and stop the hate. this includes the outrageous hate i've seen where people are hoping for trump to fail. get it together. hate for hate breeds more hate. it is like trying to put a forest fire out with a bucket of gasoline. can we do better than this? can we truly trump hate with love? are we capable? i sure hope so. i'm going to do my best to show love by loving my neighbor as i love myself and raising my children to do the same.