Today I am trying to refocus on things of eternal significance and being distracted by my politics and the cat. It’s hard to remember sometimes that the neediest people are actually image bearers of God. And our family has its own needs. It’s very easy for my adult children to become dysregulated when I’m attending to someone other than them. They are significantly socially impaired by their autism, so I must remember to give their needs priority. I remind myself that when they are giving me a hard time that they are probably having a harder time than I am. That’s a lesson that God teaches me over and over so I can get better at it.
Today I am also working on building a liberty and conscience caucus for the American Solidarity Party. I have a vested interest in solidarity with the most vulnerable among us because of my bipolar, our autism, and a host of other invisible disabilities that run in my family. I am committed to conscience protections because of my unorthodox faith and the hope that I can safely and loudly express the ideas that I feel the world most pressingly needs. Politics is an important avenue to change how the world deals with the underserved and the misunderstood.
And then there’s the cat. Magic has been very playful today. Swatting and nipping at my hand. I suspect that she has been dysregulated by our guest too, but he left several day ago without telling us where he was going or when he’d be back, so everyone is refocusing with me today. Including the cat.
1 May 2023
Latter Day Sinner 