Pastor's Note
Grieving Together
PermalinkJust when I've about decided that Facebook brings out the worst in almost all of us--encouraging knee-jerk, reactionary, agenda-driven tirades at every turn--there's this ray of hope. I've actually been (okay, mostly) encouraged as I've followed responses to the Orlando tragedy. To hurt for the people who are hurting and to grieve with those who grieve only demands that I see people as people--made in God's image, fellow sinners on this sometimes too brief pilgrimage called life. To stand with them doesn't require that I celebrate every sexual behavior or that every Muslim is my enemy or that I must use every tragedy to drive my preferred political agenda regarding guns, borders, and "my rights." Sometimes it can be as simple as taking chicken sandwiches to a line of people waiting to donate blood on my day off.
