today is the day to write the post
so, here is the book of grief. I do not want to get into how many pages actually exist in this book. it is written, daily, by all of us, whose horrified eyes view the destruction, the death, the hatred, the anger, the killings, the....everything, all in the name of a god I do not recognize. It is natural for us to scream for justice, to wish the evil done upon the evildoers. I'm not joining the "forgive and forget" debate, ever. I do believe that forgiveness is divine, but so is refusing to allow the thing that needed forgiveness to continue. Today is not that message. Today, I have awakened to more bad news than yesterday. I am so weighed down by the shootings, the killings, the disappearances, the hatred in the streets. I believe that for myself, I must step away to mourn. And I do, so much. I told some friends yesterday that I was weighted the whole day. Today is Sunday, early, a time when I normally am waking to be grateful. Instead, t...