What does it take to hear a heart break?.....
Do the skies have to turn black before the pain is interpreted?....
Does the music of life have to fall silent before your ears are opened to the cries?....
How many lives have to be taken before you acknowledge the pain?......
How many hearts have to break, and how many lives lost before you see the truth?
How close does the tragedy have to come to your front door before you hear?
Your child, your friend, your brother, your sister?....Each person passed was a child, a friend, a brother or a sister....does it have to be yours before you will feel? Before you will move? Before you will change?
I don't understand the dehumanization of the LGBTQ+ community....It seems that to those who have decided that we are wrong, for whatever reason, are hell bent on being right...despite the cost.
Until that bill finds its way to their front door...
I don't understand why we, as humans, can take life....any life...for granted. It seems that somehow, children, teens, and even adults have become "synonymous with the lesser."
When will this change?
Change....that's the problem! No ONE wants to change....because they believe they are right? or simply because change is new, it's different, it's.....change.
I leave you with one question, "What is your child's, friend's, brother's, or sister's life worth to you?"
Would you be willing to suffer the discomforts of change to save their lives? Would you be willing to succumb to the terrible inconvenience of a background check to buy a gun? Would you be willing to open your eyes and see the worth of ALL of humanity? Would you be willing to STOP spreading hate and homophobia?
What if this were your child, brother, sister or friend....what if?
Pastor Brandiilyne Mangum-Dear
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