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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Heart hurts....

My heart hurts and aches...does yours?

Are you overwhelmed by the hate and injustice and poison we continue to spew at each other?

I am.

I am broken over the continuous violence that we rage against each other.  How do you not recognize the terrible tragedy that we are living in when you read about the most recent shooting in Charleston?  Why do we think racism is over and mental health is not an issue to discuss among polite company?

How do we start the conversations to heal the wounds and change for the lives of our children?

When did we become so unsensitized to violence?  When the most recent school shooting occurred a couple of weeks ago I don't know that I even acknowledge it the shootings have become so common place.  

The President is calling for stricter gun control - I think the conversation needs to revolve more around mental health, equal rights, and right and wrong.

All issues that we say are "fine" but we are only kidding ourselves.  How do we fix something when we can't honestly admit or talk about what the problem is...

Why can't we just be kind?