To ignore games and entertainment made with hatred for simple, peaceful folk.
To build something better with people we respect, admire, and even love.
To write stories that will be remembered in a century or more.
To create superior and even God-glorifying works in our offices, on our couches, in our garages, with every tool at our disposal, even if that’s whittled down to our voices, fingers, rocks and sticks.
To refuse to be silent in a generation where the bullies are trying to shout us down from the top of the hill.
To do so with grace and panache, laughing and singing while we do it.
For my part, I have and do work with people who think, believe, and feel differently from me, and yet we remain at peace. Each of us may inwardly wish for the other to be a little more like us in this or that aspect, but I for one respect the efforts of all my former and current colleagues to get the work done, without tearing the world around us down over personal details.
I thank and honor the many individuals who have given me a chance to work over these last several years, and I call blessings down from Heaven on them for the good they’ve done my family in choosing to work with me. I wish them peace, success, and open eyes.
But those who would destroy… They underestimate our ability to stand our ground, to pray for our enemies, to never give up, and to hope for a cultural future that’s even better, both superficially and internally, than the one we grew up with.
It’s clear now, if it wasn’t before, that a healthy culture, as synthetic as ours often feels, is one of the pillars of civilization. Don’t think it’s a fool’s errand to erect new pillars even as others take a sledgehammer to the whole structure.
If we don’t do it, who will?