Dear Beloveds,
I pray Jesus’s tears lead us to change, transformation and action, as it did when he resurrected Lazarus. When we weep, we are not alone. God is with us, and as a community we hold each other. I hope this past Sunday you were given permission and space to feel, to cry and to feel all your feelings with and for all those precious families that have lost a loved one to senseless violence. May we choose hope and courage to help change the things we cannot accept as normal.
Here is the poem I read Sunday morning, Hymns for Hurting by Amanda Gorman: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/amanda-gorman-uvalde-poem.html
Here is the op-ed piece Ken suggested us to read by William Bunch:
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/uvalde-shooting-anger-beto-orourke-20220526.html
A poem for sitting with the grief: https://readwildness.com/19/smith-people
A poem to remember you’re alive:
https://gratefulness.org/resource/in-case-i-forget-to-say-it-enough/
Finally, here is information about the June 11th March for Our Lives event: https://marchforourlives.com/march22/
If you are interested in attending with some folks from Tab, please email me (Sana at lanenalinda@gmail.com).
Warmly,
Sana DelCorazon