We will, with God's help.

It seized a body, and encountered the Lord; it seized the visible, and cowered before the invisible. It consumed earth, but encountered heaven.
The Second Easter Homily of St. John Chrysostom.

A powerful reminder that prayer ought to be honest because:
1. God can handle honest prayers, even the violent ones.
2. Honest prayers help us be honest with ourselves about where we are in life.
3. Honest prayers, once prayed, are given up to God for Him to answer as He sees fit.

Later, in the same chapter: "The prayers offered in the Bible include those by Zechariah, asking God to save us from the hands of all who hate is. The prayers of the Gospels encompass Mary's Song, a call to tear the powerful from their thrones and send the rich away empty."

Good Lord, deliver us.

(I have no idea if that's the correct response, but it sounds like the Great Litany)

When we, despite all evidence to the contrary, defend excessive force as justified, we join with the crowd and say, "Let his blood be on us and on our children."

White supremacy is alive and well today. And every time we allow it to rear its head, we recrucify the innocent Christ.

When we defend the actions of the officer and place the blame on the victim, saying, "He should have obeyed the orders of the police," we join with the high priests, saying, "We have no King but Caesar!" 🧵

We MUST be better than our worse impulses.

But even implying that blame might reside on someone hired for diversity CANNOT happen. Implications like this, if we allow them to continue, will lead us further down the road of demonizing our neighbors, which will, in turn, make it easier to mistreat them. 🧵

The facts of the crash are that two aircraft attempted to inhabit the same airspace at the same time. How both aircraft did so while communicating with ATC is something for the investigators to determine. 🧵

Helth