Do you and conflict find each other easily? Are you regularly defending values you once found common?

Weakness in the face of injustice can at first be confused with meekness. Being quiet when one should speak up, shying a cheek the other way from an offense, weakness can resemble the reclusive nature of contemplation. Weakness can be dressed as the mercy of meekness.

In the workplace, certain values may be subtlety compromised in some form or fashion and the erosion disheartens, but the injustice can embolden the passionate. Anger can be a tool used to defend justice. The struggle for the heat of righteousness amidst the cold of deliberately murky nuanced discernments, when paired with vigilance, anger can be a torch to cleanse the rotting seeds of weakness. Be a torch and participate in disarming the depravity weighing down the communities we care for in which we are members.

While the winter winds of flexible ethics begin to sting, keep steadfast in your path that transgresses against a broken world resolved to render your efforts futile. Public persecution can be an alias of hope for those who have given up but whose embers are still warm.

“Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times.”

Those Who Remain by G. Michael Hopf