Politics

Politics … one wrong word and the conversation is over. He emailed, “If you haven’t the common sense to support [so-and-so] I have no more to say to you.” I’d known him for years and thought him a friend. My vexation overtook me. I was consumed in devising the perfect, devastating reply. Then I was given a prayer, entirely for my friend’s well-being, that peace and all good might be his to enjoy, now and always. I wrote those words to him, not sure if he would reply, yet certain these were the words I needed to send.