So many children have been murdered today. Parents and families are heartbroken beyond words. A community is reeling with grief.
Yet we know this is not the last time. Sadly, these tragedies have become a familiar story. Last weekend, how many people died violently in the United States? Do we remember the supermarket and church shootings of just a few days ago? We should. We should keep all of our fellow Americans impacted by these murders close to our hearts in prayer.
Prayer, not politics. Just once. If only, just once, the politicians would honor the victims and respect the grieving families by not talking politics. Just once, they should acknowledge that something is broken in the soul of America. This country needs prayers. The politics have no place here in this terrible moment.
But no matter how inappropriate, the opportunity to push forward an agenda will be too tempting, as it always is. The politicians will go there. They will skip over the devastating losses and blather about gun control to shattered parents.
I, for one, will not listen to any of them. Instead, I will pray for the grieving families of Uvalde and for our ailing nation.
