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This is my "doing"

It's been a rough 24 hours on my heart. I can't wrap my head around the death of George Floyd. I can't. It hurts my heart. I am crying as I write this because I know that God's heart is hurting over so much brokenness and the fact that ANY of His children are seen as less than human. My heart has done a lot of hurting over the past month over senseless killings of other people. I know that as a white person, in America, I have the privilege of being able to do just about whatever I want, wherever I want, whenever I want. I also know that if my skin was a different color, I wouldn't be able to - or I could, but I would always be a little afraid. The problem is, I can't change my skin color. And I'm not much of an activist. But I have been called to write some words. This is my "doing" if you will. 

Friends, people are people. I have seen through this that it is a white privilege thing to say "I don't see color," because it actually exists. But what if by saying that, that is the most I can do? By saying I don't see color, I am not saying that your life is easy - but I am saying that I see YOU. I don't care what your skin color is, or your religion, or your hair style, or your tattoos. You are breathing air and you have a heart beat - and God had it in His master plan to create you. And so I look at you and I see a person He made. A person He took the time to think about and design from the inside out. Every single one of You was created out of love. Even if your life isn't full of love - Your heavenly Father still created every hair on your head out of it.

Today I was at the post office. I decided to talk to the person behind me (yes, she was 6 feet away!). Like more than a simple "hello." We engaged in conversation. It was so nice. And it made me think that perhaps that was enough "action" on my part today. I saw another human being and we engaged. 

I'm going to try and do that more often - acknowledge people. Every people. (I know that's not grammatically correct but I like it!) Because God made them. And He made me. And He made us to live in this big old crazy world TOGETHER. Will you do this with me? Talk to people. It's going to get harder because in this Covid 19 world people have larger space bubbles and their emotional/mental/physical walls are up and in a defensive pose. But you could be on offense. You could try and break through the walls of one person a day to make them know that you SEE them. Not their skin color or anything else about their appearance - you see them as a human being. And recognize yourself as also a human being. So you have something in common - and that can unite us. 

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against these things there is NO law." Galatians 5:22-23. I added that emphasis because there isn't anything preventing you from taking advantage of every single one of those fruits. Use them as you face the world. Or just one person. But remember those fruits and use the heck out of them.

Friends - we have GOT to learn to love each other. We have no choice.  



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