#WeeklyWord: gift With epiphany this week and all the talk about gifts, it got me thinking about the misplaced giftedness that we attribute to struggle. While I don't think life is devoid of struggle, conflict, and difficulties, I also don't believe that the gift lies in those things in themselves but rather in the spaces it creates for us to grow as individuals and communities. With this in mind, let us avoid struggle nor set it as the final destination, rather let's see it as something that we pass through, go over, or step around in order for the other side of struggle to be revealed, which is the real gift. gifts When we accept the myth that all struggle is a "gift" we normalize and reinforce oppression we accept brokenness as permanent and we endure despair as if it was meant to be. struggle is many things but it is not a gift in itself. the gift of struggle is what it births and beckons righteous anger enough to topple and turn over courageous humility enough to reflect an...