@Vegalteno@jonmchu@Lin_Manuel@intheheights This movie was a love letter to your NYC neighborhood - Washington Heights. Personally, it also was a beautiful tribute to my NYC upbringing. Growing up on Bushwick Ave - between Madison & Woodbine - I saw my family, my culture, and myself on the screen. 🙌❤️
It’s been 7 months today since Mom went to be with our Lord. It’s been an emotional day. Growing up we always watched the Puerto Rican Day parade together and over the years talked on the phone after it aired. Well today, we went to see Lin Manuel Miranda’s *In the Heights*.
This movie was a love letter to his NYC neighborhood - Washington Heights. Personally, it also was a beautiful tribute to my NYC upbringing. Growing up on Bushwick Ave - between Madison & Woodbine - I saw my family, my culture, and myself on the screen.
We can differ, disagree & debate without hate. The great commission is not go ye therefore and destroy one another. So much of what is spewing from our mouth is erupting from our fears. We don’t have to take our fears out on one another or our enemies. We can take them to Jesus.
Refuse to hate. Reject it outright. Where it’s infected us, let’s repent of it & ask God to replace hostility with compassion. The natural defense to a hateful world is to become hateful people but Jesus said they’d know us by our love. These brutal days are taking a toll on us.