Beloved,
Maybe your heart is breaking, like mine, at the news of the shooting death of 9 African-American brothers/sisters/siblings in their church while they read scripture and prayed together. By a young white man who talked to them for an hour—told them that he was going to kill them just because they were black—and then, in fact, did it. He deprived 9 beautiful people of their lives, and took them away from every earthly person who loves them.
