Have Bullies Affected Your Life?

To the Editor:
Like a prisoner in jail for drunk driving, I too feel unlovable. In the current Christian Upper Room magazine, Avon White writes about the bullies in prison where he was incarcerated for seven months. He said that he wished the bullies would disappear into a bottomless pit.
The bullies in my life have given me the great assignment of post traumatic stress disorder, for which I receive counseling. My faith and church community at the First United Methodist Church of Cape May Court House gives me a job, for which I am thankful.
For those people who wish to seek the court’s redress for the bullies in their life, Justice Virginia Long was recently honored by the ACLU-NJ. She wrote, “Each of us at some time in our lives has the potential to fall – sometimes far – to be among the souls who are powerless, or even despised.”
Long says we need to protect the judiciary system and ensure its independence. Each person should know, she says, that when we go to court, the judge sits on a level playing field.
Whether we seek the face of liberty with Jesus in Heaven or we seek the face of liberty in our courts, I wish to build peace. Let it begin with me.