A Wing and a Prayer

A wing and a prayer
or
the enemy
(this has to stop)

God lift me from the intolerable burden of my ignorance, arrogance, wilful blindness, bitterness and resentment

As I pray that others rise above the same faults and temptations

I watched Fox News release a message this week:

There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you

And coming for us

And then I watched the Democrats respond in panic and anger, saying:

There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you

And coming for us

Are there terrible things afoot, bubbling under the surface?
Is something coming for you?
And for us?

Ask yourself how true that is of yourself and your own life

Have you addressed all that?

Are you concerning yourself with the dust in your enemy’s eyes, instead of attending to the filth that obscures your own sight?

Do we want accusation, suspicion, discord, derision and hatred?

Or the peace and prosperity and happiness that beckons to us at this moment like never before?

Who’s the enemy here?

Is it the basket of deplorables?
Is it the freaks and the queers?

Is it the plumbers and carpenters and tradesmen and managers who work honestly and diligently during the day and the soldiers who stalwartly defend the borders and protect us?

Is it the artists and visionaries whose expressions of unbridled creativity entertain and rejuvenate us and who continually offer to us an unending panoply of technological miracle?

Is it the institutions that guide and protect us that so many lived and died to erect and establish which for all their faults have served us so well?

Do we want revenge or justice?
Do we want contempt or mercy?
Do we want war—or peace?

And what are you aiming at in your heart of hearts?

I see even the best of men degenerating into the exchange of blows.
I see even the best of men identifying the enemy in our neighbours and friends.
I see even the best of men falling prey to cowardice and self-righteous anger.

It needs to stop.
I need to stop.
You need to stop.

Before it’s too late.

Who is the enemy here?

The snake in your heart?
The lies on your tongue?
The arrogance of your intellect?
The cowardice of our refusal to see?

The enemy is that which divides to sow discord.

The enemy is the pride and fear that stops us from lending a hand acoss the divide.

The enemy is the great and eternal adversary of mankind.

And if we demonize our brothers, our comrades-in-arms, do we not precisely call that dread spirit forth?

Have we not yet learned?

Courage
Trust
Truth
Love

Even unto your enemy.
Which is you.

God forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
May what is highest guide our vision
May what is highest open our ears
May what is highest guide our tongues

And may we pray
Fearful of the hell we could so easily and carelessly create

Deliver us from evil
Shine a light into the corners of our dark hearts

For thine is the Kingdom
The Power and the Glory
For Ever and Ever

Amen

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[mechailreydon]

“In every story there’s a hero and a villain, in your story you’re both” — Jung

[princemyshkin]

“Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” How arrogant I’ve been to think he wasn’t talking about me.

[akirathedon]

It’s a beautiful day to be alive, if only we care to pay attention. Thank you doc. 🌊🙏🌊

[nook]

As a young father with little money, who is about to go back to university to study so I can provide better for my family, your words have ignited a flame within my heart. I have been watching your lectures lately and have found renewed hope for the future. In addition, I am finding my way back to Christ. Never stop doing what you're doing, because you are changing hearts and lives.

[irishwarlord]

“The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”

― Saint Augustine

[EnricoduPlessis]

This man has grown on me. Critical thinking, wisdom and great sensitivity to the spiritual side of being human. A real blessing.

[masterluxu]

There is wisdom here. We should all listen carefully.
God bless DR.Peterson

[samgreen]

I read this at my Grandads funeral 2 years ago, while recovering from a recently absent father and a broken partnership. Dr Peterson helped through the darkness and into the light and has maintained an inspiration and powerful role model for me in life and will hopefully influence those I love and care about around me.

[aaroncsoka]

"LOVE. Even unto your enemy...which is YOURSELF."

Bars. This is touching, and so so human, and so, so very true.

[odrlmc]

_“It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective [psychosis] and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.”_

~ Carl Jung

[ASUTubaboy]

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

[thegreenstar]

Dr. Peterson, you likely won’t see this, but there’s a chance someone will, and this may help.

I started watching you four years ago, while my parents underwent their first divorce out of two. I didn’t know much about you, only that you’d appeared along voices like Ben Shapiro, and made some comments on political correctness. I was interested to hear your thoughts, and I was surprised to hear a wide range of topics with views I never heard and be provided a sense meaning I never thought I needed. In one two hour lecture (I forget which), I never heard you say “um” or “uh” once. I saw how articulated you were, and I’ve been trying for the past few years to replicate that.

You helped me through my parents’ divorces, helped me amend my relationship with my father (cliché I know, but true). You helped me find who I was. I articulate my thoughts much more clearly than I used to. I find myself to be less of a reactionary. I’ve been cleaning my room more consistently. I feel like I can be the best person at my father’s funeral. I’ve grown as a person because of you.

I never thought I’d meet you. I thought the best chance to have a word or some semblance of half a conversation was to become popular with a podcast of my own and invite you on.

But a few weeks ago, you came to my campus, Bucknell, and spoke with us. I was ecstatic when my friend told me you were to come here, and I still can’t help but smile when I think of that night I ran to my room and called my parents, excitedly telling them of your visit.

I remember that night you spoke, and I remember the morning after (I hope you remember me; I’m Jack, the one whose lobster you signed). Even if you don’t, though, I wanted to say thank you. This prayer moved me to tears, and I feel incredibly blessed to have watched your videos, let alone met you in person. I love you.

[saraloggins]

I have been praying for Mr Peterson since his illness last year. I was thrilled to hear that his daughter now calls herself a believer. "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" from the book of Mark chapter 8. I see a beautiful heart in these two and I pray for their souls.

[aaronwebb]

"We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

"But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated,  Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984,  Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short,  Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us."

From "Amusing Ourselves to Death".

The true enemy is amathia. Always has been, always will be.

[kauboy]

When a genius psychologist finds a deeply concealed poet and philosopher within, it is a beautiful thing.

[heidijoyce]

Mr Jordon Peterson your light is truly shining for all to see for the Glory of Almighty God, I thank God he has chosen someone to speak truth so that they to may have a light that shines. May God Bless you and your family and all those touched by your words given by God. 🙏🏻🕊

[Xianomega]

Thank you, Dr. Peterson. This message made me weep. I will pray to no longer hate myself. I will pray to not project that hatred as a shadow onto others. I will pray for memory: to remember that those who hurt me, because they are blinded by fear, do not know what they do. I will pray for open eyes to know the evil I do. I will pray for healing, and I will pray for courage to feel the pain in healing. And I will pray for love, for the love that links opposites together as a transcendent function of the psyche, the love of the cross, of the mandala, of the serpent on a pole.

We love you, Dr. Peterson, or at least I do. Please be kind to yourself. You taught me today to be kind to myself.

You have changed the world more than anyone alive today can understand, not even you. We thank you for wrestling with God, and so does He.

[seryuusakinikaido]

"Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen."

[prairie]

Dr peterson. Thank you for this..
Thank you for telling the truth we were not humble ennuf to admit to ourself.
You remind me a lot of my father in a way . Boy was he right all along. I now understand a lot of things i did not back than. Thank you for that gift

[nuqwestr]

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart"
---- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956