Love can build a bridge ....

I went looking this morning for a little music to play the old year out with and alighted on this performance from April of 2018 by the San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus of Naomi Judd's "Love Can Build a Bridge," composed with Paul Overstreet and John Barlow Jarvis.

The song dates from December of 1990 and was written as a farewell of sorts by Judd, whose 10-year run with daughter, Wynonna, as The Judds was nearing its end.

The setting for this performance was First Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina, during the Lavender Pen Tour --- a missionary venture into the deep South by the San Francisco-based singing group.

This has been another year in which so many things that divide the human family have emerged and flourished, fanned by --- among other things --- irresponsible use of the social media.

The year now dawning, 2020, has the potential to be even more divisive. Part of the answer is not withdrawal, but to speak heart-felt and carefully considered convictions boldly. Not necessarily our minds. These can play tricks as they flit from the fancy of one day to that of the next.

Tempered by a little love.