"I can't breathe!"

“I can’t breathe!”: The last words Eric Garner spoke as he was dying on a NY sidewalk.

I can’t believe it happened again: no indictment for an unarmed black man killed at the hands of those who serve and protect

I can’t sleep . . . again: Injustice keeps me up at night

I can’t do anything: I am a middle class white woman in KY

I can’t do nothing: I must do something

I can’t ignore the cries: of Trayvon, Michael, Eric, …

I can’t stay silent: I must speak out, preach, pray

I can’t imagine: the pain of the victims’ loved ones

I can’t pretend: to know what it is like to live in fear because of the color of my skin

I can’t believe: that this is happening in 2014 in the “Land of the Free”

I can’t know: all the facts, all the feelings

I can’t have faith: in that which is not Truth, Justice, Peace

I can’t fear: that God is not present

I can’t wait: patience is running thin

I can’t hide: my eyes, my ears, my voice

I can’t cry: Jesus weeps

“I can’t breathe . . .”

But I can.

I must.

We must.

Guide me Great Jehovah,

Tell me not what I can’t do but I can . . . to speak Truth to Power, to stand up to injustice, to be still and know.  Use my voice, my hands, my feet, to bring peace to a broken world.

May it be so.

#blacklivesmatter