Speechless - DAY 2

Went to sleep watching this for hours and woke up to this even more horrifying that the night before:

Killing police at a peach march...

and all these protesters wanted was PEACE because there is SO MUCH INJUSTICE

So many people are being killed and I just don't get it.

One of my best friends has 3 "black" kids... THEY MATTER - they need to be safe - we NEED TO CARE, we NEED to speak up.

We actually lost an officer from our church and I just loved him.  I didn't know his name but I do now... Mike Smith.  He always stood watch over the kids ministry.  He was ALWAYS smiling, always fun, ALWAYS plays with the kids.  What an utter loss.

I feel utterly helpless - and sad.

We need to pray for our cities, our children, we need to BE DIFFERENT.

I'm afraid what happened in Dallas last night just widens the gap.

I can make a difference. Be the hummingbird.  I can extend kindness, goodness, peace... and so can you.

CHOOSE TO BE DIFFERENT, stand for injustice, fight for equality.

ALL LIVES MATTER - WE HAVE TO DO BETTER!!!!

Be a hummingbird

The Story of the Hummingbird

One day a terrible fire broke out in a forest - a huge woodlands was suddenly engulfed by a raging wild fire. Frightened, all the animals fled their homes and ran out of the forest. As they came to the edge of a stream they stopped to watch the fire and they were feeling very discouraged and powerless. They were all bemoaning the destruction of their homes. Every one of them thought there was nothing they could do about the fire, except for one little hummingbird.

This particular hummingbird decided it would do something. It swooped into the stream and picked up a few drops of water and went into the forest and put them on the fire. Then it went back to the stream and did it again, and it kept going back, again and again and again. All the other animals watched in disbelief; some tried to discourage the hummingbird with comments like, "Don't bother, it is too much, you are too little, your wings will burn, your beak is too tiny, it’s only a drop, you can't put out this fire."

And as the animals stood around disparaging the little bird’s efforts, the bird noticed how hopeless and forlorn they looked. Then one of the animals shouted out and challenged the hummingbird in a mocking voice, "What do you think you are doing?" And the hummingbird, without wasting time or losing a beat, looked back and said, "I am doing what I can."

DO WHAT YOU CAN... ALWAYS