The difference between fact and fiction is many facts are unbelievable. When I was writing feature articles, some stories were so unbelievable that they would be dismissed out of hand as fantasy if they were printed as fiction. What I am going to write next is not for children’s eyes. I was doing a story about a sexually abused woman. Her father had been abusing her for as long as she could remember. When she was a teenager, she sat down with her three brothers and told them what her father was doing to her in hopes they would help her. Instead of helping her, the three brothers took turns raping her. They told her that it was her fault her father acted the way he did. One of her brothers, who had always been kind and considerate, and she was sure he would help her was the first one to rape her.
In this country, what is currently going on is a story that would be dismissed as fantasy if written as a piece of fiction. We have a large group of our fellow countrymen who feels the president has done nothing wrong and is trying to save the country. We have another large group of our fellow countrymen who think the president is trying to bring down our democracy through sedition. From a writer’s point of view, these two facts make for the start of an epic novel. Unfortunately, those two things are facts. What can we do as an individual? How?
Again, what can we do? We can pray for the country. We can make those prayers without accusing the other side of anything. We can make our prayers for our country. We can pray our country doesn’t permanently split apart. We can pray for peace in our country. I’m sure we are all willing to pray for our country without thinking ill of the other side. What say we do that today? Thanks.
