We are the Enemy Within

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Oct 28, 2024 · 3m

Donald Trump is absolutely right about us: we are the enemy within.

We are the enemy within homes and family holiday gatherings, filled with people we once loved and respected; older relatives who, when growing up, told us to be good people and to live with honesty and decency, who taught us to stand up to the bullies and to make sure no one was abused for being different. We are there to make them accountable for betraying every lesson they ever taught us then, by now partnering with someone who embodies the very vicious, broken person they warned us not to become or abide.

We are the enemy…