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marvin the martian

Friends.

Oh, Marvin the Martian. The fiercest yet most polite villian in the known universe - always up to somthing, always ready to take over planets, always amazed at the lack of intelligence on earth - HA!

He has this one line in an episode and I went on YouTube to find it where he says, “I’m not angry. I’m just terribly, terribly hurt.”

And.

Man.

That makes me think, right? Because how many people in this world do we villianize and demonize and judge and hate and shame and all the things because we assume that deep down inside they are horrible, bad, rotten, no good, and evil?

Am I the only one?

I mean, honestly - we do ALL. THE. TIME. in …

Politics.

Religion.

Our communities.

… Yeah.

Whether it’s Donald Trump or Kamala Harris or Elon Musk or Joel Osteen or that nasty barista who seems to make your latte wrong on purpose! We all have people in the world and in our lives who we can be very quick to assume are “bad” - the Marvin the Martian’s of our lives.

But.

What if.

What if they aren’t bad? What if deep down inside they aren’t rotten? What if they are good? What if the very core of them is good and whole and wonderful? What if the breath of the Divine is pulsing through their DNA in the same way it’s pulsing through yours?

Maybe?

And what if they aren’t as angry as they are hurt? Aren’t as nasty as they are hurt? Aren’t as rotten as they are hurt? Aren’t as fixated on destruction and causing pain as they are hurt and traumatized?

Now.

Hear. Me. Out.

That doesn’t excuse their behavior, of course. Nor does it mean that you need to be in “relationship” with them (ex. a narcissitic parent, spouse, etc.). No way, no how - you aren’t a doormat, you aren’t a punching bag, you don’t need to stick around. We aren’t handing out free passes to people to hurt and abuse and cause chaos because they are “hurt”. Some bridges need to be burned.

But.

I wonder.

I wonder if seeing those we demonize the most as hurting, traumatized humans as opposed to evil and rotten, demonic hell raisers … I wonder if that might allow us to see their humanity, to (at the very least) see that they aren’t much different than us; and I wonder if seeing that might cause us to direct a little grace their way, a little love, a little hope that they find the healing they are so desperately looking for (even if they don’t yet realize that’s what they’re after).

Marvin the Martian, folks. Perhaps he can teach us that stuffing away our pain as opposed to facing it and grieving it and dealing with it can cause us to create immense pain for the world around us.

Lots and lots of lessons here.

This one is in the ART STUDIO for $275, that’s the suggested price. Like it? Want it? But can’t swing that price? Just make an offer and even if the offer is $0, I’ll drop it in the mail next week.

Much love.

• Glenn || PATREON / ART STUDIO