“God grant me... courage to change the things I can….”
Much of what happens in our world leaves us initially speechless. Last year I watched the video of the death of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old African-American boy with a toy gun whom a policeman shot and killed within less than two seconds of arriving at his playground. Less than two seconds. Nothing I could write here would suffice to describe what happened; it has to be seen to be believed and understood.
I remember vividly the day my grandmother took food to two elderly women living in a shack in rural Missouri. I must have been 7 or 8, and I tagged along. The two women were dirt poor. I was stunned to see their toilet – a chair with a hole in the seat and a bucket underneath.