A young white woman, same age as one of my daughters, died on Saturday.
Her crime? Showing up to counter-protest Neo-Nazi demonstrators.
We now know her name was Heather Heyer.
All day on Sunday I felt so weighed down by the death of Heather. Tears. I heard her mother and her friends speak.
She gave her life while protesting a white-supremacist demonstration.
I had made peace with Trump a month or so ago, trying not to hate him--just have compassion for him in his ALZ condition.
But now dt's presence in the world feels like a poisonous cloud that can't be lifted.
I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to get through the remaining months or years of a Trump presidency.
In the Beatitudes, Matthew 5:10, Jesus says:
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the reign of God."
Surely Heather now reigns in the glory of God's presence--she gave her life for righteousness sake.
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