🔥 Soul Journal Post: The Cost of Hate, The Power of Love

When Hate Takes a Life, What Do We Choose to Keep 

 

A voice was silenced. Not by fate, but by fury. This is not a political post—it’s a prayer.

Someone was killed.  

Not in war, but in the war of words.  

Not by an enemy, but perhaps by those closest.  

And while I will not speak politics here,  

I will speak of hate.  

Because hate is not a headline—it’s a wound.  

And it lives in all of us, if we let it.

- Hate begins with forgetting someone’s humanity.  

- It grows in silence, in judgment, in fear.  

- It does not need a weapon—it only needs a story that says they are not like us.  

- But love tells a different story.  

- Love says: I see you. I may not agree, but I will not erase you.

I believe in kindness—not as a soft thing, but as a fierce resistance.  

I believe in empathy—not as agreement, but as remembrance.  

I believe in love—not as a feeling, but as a force.

 Offering:  

Light a candle for someone you’ve judged.  

Write their name.  

Say:  

> I do not know your whole story.  

> But I choose to remember you as human.  

> I choose love.

Closing Blessing:  

> May we never forget the cost of hate.  

> May our words be bridges, not blades.  

> May we become guardians of empathy,  

> Even when the world forgets.