To MAGA Refugees and Fox News Orphans, on Christmas
JOHN PAVLOVITZ
The separation you feel and the distance you are experiencing is for good reason. You know why youre here right now. This isnt a capricious response to some minor moment of misunderstanding, not some flippant mood swing triggered by a singular blowup. This is the slow, steady, and devastating realization that you and some people you have lived life alongsidearent morally compatible.
You are here because that is the cost of not being silent about the deepest contents of your heart. You are because you will not soften your deepest spiritual convictions, which means that this distance, as painful as it isis to be celebrated. You are where you are supposed to be.
Yes, some of the relationships that are broken right now may find healing, but others may not. This Christmas might not be the last one you face, without the people you expected to be there, and thats simply the truth.
But there will be others around you next year, in fact many are already there; people who have or will become family and tribe, not by bloodbut by choice; people who too are fleeing their homes and seeking refuge elsewhere.