Song of the day:
Again and again and again…
My heart breaks for the Asian communities in California and all they have suffered the last two days at what should have been one of the happiest times of the year. I pray for healing and for restoration, for peace and for answers.
I’ve lost the ability to voice how I feel about mass shootings. I’ve said them all before. So have many of you. It’s not getting better. It seems to be getting worse. Because we can’t fix the problem.
No, that’s not it. We, as a country, don’t want to fix the problem. Sure, individually a lot of us want to, but collectively, those in control, those with the power, have no interest in fixing the problem. Because it doesn’t affect them. Because they want the money that the NRA brings. They want the power that guns bring. We all know who they are.
We try to vote better people in, pass meaningful laws, but they’re few and far between. And below the massive gun problem lie the other issues: mental health, poverty, fear, anger, and so on.
How do we even begin to address it all?
How do we stop the killing, stop the dying?
How do we go to work, to school, to church, to a festival, to a movie, to a concert, to the grocery store, to…?
How do we open our doors every morning?
How do we even get out of bed?
The short answer is, of course, we just do.
Because if we don’t then they win.
They scare us so badly that we hunker down and become shells of ourselves.
We live in fear.
So we have to keep trying.
Keep moving forward.
Keep working to make it better.
We vote, we support, we use our voices, we find whatever sliver of hope we can to get through each day, and we live.
There is no other way.
We have to do it.
No matter how hard.
We simply have to.
Video of the day:
I encourage you to close your eyes and listen to this video instead of watching. Breathe in and out slowly. As many times as you can during the two minutes.
Then repeat.