my response to pat robertson

while others like jim wallis do it better, i can’t help but offer my two cents on pat robertson’s latest embarrassment.

last night, i was deeply affected by a wonderful song…

blessed be your name when the sun’s shining down on me
when the world’s all that it should be, blessed be your name

blessed be your name on the road marked with suffering
though there’s pain in the offering, blessed be your name

you give and take away, you give and take away
my heart will choose to say, lord blessed be your name

when my mom passed, i spent years asking how god could allow it to happen. years. i very literally could not sing this song. but i realized, as jim wallis so simply puts it, god suffers with those who are suffering. my family did not struggle with my mom’s terrible disease because we did something wrong, or because of a spiteful god – and neither do the haitians.

pat robertson, and every american bears more responsibility for the destruction in haiti than god. we’ve allowed our neighbors to wallow in the worst kind of poverty without caring. we choose not to look outside our luxury cars and homes. we choose to ignore the poor.

another far-right, conservative leader (rush limbaugh) is claiming we shouldn’t give another dime to haiti. i won’t allow myself to comment on the right’s political hijacking of christians in america (right now at least)… but i will just disagree, and say that these are our neighbors – and we’ve been called to love them.

my heart will choose to say, lord blessed be your name.

Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Re…