God weeps

I read the news

I think of my children

I think of my granddaughter

and my heart weeps

for children

killed

brutalized by what?

hate

fear?

children killed

by ideologies

that don't work

and foster

a culture of violence

I have read

and re-read the blogs

I have made my comments

and yet

I see 

a culture of violence

I see

hatred and bigotry

I see fear

I see violence proposed as a cure for violence

God

we are so deluded

can we not understand

that the cross is our model

did Jesus have a sword so

that not only Romans would have swords?

Did he react to violence and hatred with 

violence and hatred?

no... the cross says

it all ends here

it all

ends here

the hate

the violence 

the death

it ends because

I 

God 

refuse to continue the pattern

refuse to keep the loop of violence and death intact

but we do not see

we do not understand

we pick up the sword

the gun

and children die

and God weeps