More prayer needed for family, nation
While watching the mob in Minneapolis burn their neighborhoods down, after looting all the stores on their streets, I just closed my eyes and shook my head in sad disbelief. All I could think was, not again!? By looking at the actual individuals doing the destruction, it was obvious that the average age was no older than 40. 20-40. In case you weren’t paying attention, or maybe just forgot, or just maybe not old enough to even know. The Supreme Court in late 1962-early 1963 ruled Prayer in School unconstitutional. So, chances are none of the mob probably has ever said a prayer in school, with their class mates. If they are 40 years old, they have never seen the 10 Commandments mounted in any way, shape, or form, while walking the halls of any of their Schools. Although the movie, Lost Highway, is about a schizophrenic who kills, then escapes prison, we know what it means to “being on a lost highway.” Unfortunately in America there are a lot of lost highways to get on. Unfortunately there are a lot of individuals, wandering lost, every minute of the day. No direction, no place to be, with no place to go. Lost. It’s mind boggling that one of the buildings, burnt down last night in Minneapolis, was a building to help people in need of health help, a place for displaced individuals, or families, the homeless. A place for protection, for the people in the neighborhoods of Minneapolis. Gone. What bothers me about all this is all the news programs can’t stop playing the film clip of the cop with his knee on George Floyds’ neck. Over, and over, and then over again. News flash: we have seen enough.
There’s no need to keep showing this tragedy. Might as well throw gasoline on the fire. There’s an old saying. If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. What we need now is more prayer, prayer for George Floyd’s family and the citizens of Minneapolis. We need to pray for peace on our streets in our cities. But, unfortunately, like clock work, we know what’s coming next.
The finger pointing, and worse, the politics. Let George Floyd rest in peace.
FRED RICHARD
Wellton