When we look around us we see so many people suffering. I recently saw a map marked with all the mass shootings in the US in 2018 (so far). There were red dots showing up everywhere. The disturbing part for me is that we don’t hear about this sort of violence elsewhere. It may be there but I don’t remember hearing about it.
The violence we see every day leaves behind it a path of suffering. The people who died no longer suffer but those left behind do. Life changed for them in a second and will never be the same.
As I think about all of this I grieve for those remaining. Most of the time they have no real answers. The person they loved went to school or a party or a concert and suddenly they were in the midst of terror.
Thankfully I have not experienced losing someone I love to violence but in this climate we never know. The country seems to be falling apart from the inside. Abraham Lincoln said that as a country we would survive unless we self-destructed. It seems to be coming true.
I am only one person but I am one. I can only do so much but I can do something. If each “one” would chose to live a life of love and compassion we could change things one person at a time.
We must each be the “one.”
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Very inspiring and motivating for me:) Thanks!
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Thank you for reading.
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For most of my life I never thought of red as the color of love – quite the contrary. But in studying the interpretation of dreams and the significance of color, I learned that red was the color of sacrifice. So when we see red, we (Christians) should be thinking of Jesus’ shed blood on the cross, the ultimate expression of divine love, and be reminded to live accordingly.
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So true and I was interested to find that connection in an Elton John quote.
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