The cruel actions of a cruel man....
O Lord, what is man that you could love him, knowihg how crue we can be?
How many mothers have gone looking for children disapeered through the evil of others? Think of all those poor mothers in WWII who had children taken away to the death camps...or so many people disapeered by death squads in central America, or all the Disapeered in Argentina, or the mothers who weep for their slaughtered sons in Darfur, and don't dare go out lest they be raped or perhaps killed themselves? Brides in India weeped over because they were killed by the bridegrooms' family as somehow not bringing in enough bride price? All the girls killed for honor crimes in various places of the world?
Grief. Murder. The weeping of a wronged mother.
And now you have given us a face to put to all these evil deeds: Terri's smile, and Mary's Shindler's tears.
Hear our prayer, O Lord,
and let our cry come unto thee!
Forgive us our heartlessness,
and teach us to love!
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
Amen!!!