An Open Letter Of Thanks

A letter to the truckers and everyone there with you…

Thank you.

Thank you for what you’re doing.

Thank you for sitting in your truck day after day after day after day… for you, for those you love, for Canada… maybe for the world.

Thank you for standing for what so many are thinking and feeling.

Thank you for speaking out for those who have suffered so greatly from suffocating, damaging and illogical mandates.

Thank you for standing for those who have lost jobs, dreams and even loved ones to those mandates.

Thank you for choosing not to live in fear.

Thank you for allowing the mainstream media to smear your name because you’re doing what you believe is right and that matters more.

Thank you for treasuring freedom over this falsified version of “public safety.”

Thank you for withstanding threats and ultimatums.

Thank you for standing in the gap for those who have had no voice.

Thank you for standing for basic human rights.

Thank you for being willing to sacrifice… your time, your job, your security, and time with those you love.

Thank you for being knowing that it might take you a good, long while to recover from your loss, but still you remain.

Thank you for not backing down when many of us might have.

Thank you for being peaceful. Thank you for choosing to resist violence. Thank you for not burning buildings, looting stores, and wreaking havoc.

Thank you for setting an example of what protests without hate and unchecked rage can look like.

Here’s Why…

I don’t know all of your intentions. I don’t know all of your motivations.

I don’t know if you fear God or not…

As a Christian, I am personally called to obey the authorities (Romans 13), but I am also called to obey God rather than man (Acts 5:29). I’m called to care for my body (1 Cor 6:19-20) and never live in fear (2 Tim 1:7, Matt 6:25-34, Phil 4:6-7, etc…).

This pushes me to support those peacefully protesting (Romans 12:18, Hebrews 12:14), and fighting the battle for the freedom of all to be able to care for their own bodies, and to never be forced to live in fear.

In Closing

The book I most quote here is generally the Bible… but today I think I’ll leave us all with a piece from Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings.

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FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.

SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. 

FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam? 

SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

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By God’s sweet grace, there is a brighter day coming for those who trust and follow him.

But for today.. for the here and now… there is some good in this world.

Thank you for fighting for it.