We must prepare to embrace truth no matter our race or personal preference

Dear Sir,

Please allow me to add my voice to the national debate (or debacle) surrounding our electoral process. I am neither a politician nor an attorney, nor do I have authority nor sufficient knowledge to pronounce on these lofty matters. I’m simply a concerned citizen, and like the rest of the population, am looking forward to the end of this strategically sustained saga.

My purpose for writing this letter is to encourage us all to look beyond race and personal preferences and seek to embrace truth. Truth is absolute. Its out-workings do not always support our ideas or ideals, but if we are to embrace truth and national healing, we must be prepared to applaud the true winner and encourage the loser while we all work together for the good of the Nation. With such an attitude, we will all be winners.
More often than not, our actions are propelled by racial insecurity which causes us to eye another race with suspicion. I therefore plead with all and sundry to put aside trepidation and tribalism; to encourage love and racial harmony instead of hate.

There have been many painful racial utterances on social media. This is a grievance to me. No person chooses his/ her race, so why should anyone display such backwardness as to denigrate another person on account of his/ her race. That’s beyond foolish!

Finally, as we await the final declaration, I urge us all to follow this Biblical injunction: “…let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” (James 1: 19-20 ).
Righteousness (not race) exalts a Nation! ( Proverbs 14:34)

Yours truly
Claudia Heywood