I want to address my decision to name my blog Mother Love will save the world. It sounds hyperbolic, and I guess it is, but I believe it is true. It's complicated, however, and the statement does not imply things easy or without pain. Love, after all, is painful because life is painful.
For those of you out there who think that life should be easy, and everyone should have everything they want all the time, and life is not fair if those things are not true, I say you are not dealing with reality. I would also point to Original Sin, but if you don't want to bring the bible into it, check out the animal kingdom and observe the pain, killing, suffering that comes with their lives. Nature on this earth includes joy and suffering for everyone. This is not heaven, and if you don't believe in heaven, then why do you think it should be here on earth where death is inevitable. You can say that is not fair, but it won't change the reality of it.
I gave birth to a bi-racial child. He has suffered from political and cultural forces imposing views on who he should be. However, when I look at him, I don't see race, I see the complete person that he is. He has my blood and DNA as well as his father's. He is his own person born from me, someone of European descent. We love each other regardless of the dangerous nonsense pressing in upon our lives. That's why I think mother love can save the world.
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