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How safe do you feel in America today? Yesterday, as I watched an unarmed-white-single mother being shot and killed by an ICE agent, I was disturbed to the core of my being, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. If such unlawful behavior can happen to an unarmed-single mother, the same can happen to any of us. Like the flu, the cruelties we now witness in America is spreading faster than the common cold. Cruelty is any act of inflicting unnecessary physical or mental pain on living creatures. Thank God we have the power and resources to combat such awful acts. 

How do we stop human cruelty? We do so by engaging individually and as a community of peopole committed to, and working towards systemic change. Change that takes place by implementing measures of prevention, educating the public, and teaching and demonstrating empathy and kindness. Simply put, we must become advocates for what is good, just, and right by practicing Philippians 4:8 which says, "Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy-meditate on these things". 

Despite the cruelties we witness in our country today, and the permissions given by the highest court on our land, each American has the ability to cultimvate and demonstrate a caring mindset from person to person, neighbor to neighbor, community to community, city to city, state to state, and nation to nation.

Let's fight cruelty with the qualities of Philippians 4:8. Let's fight it with:

  • Truth
  • Honor
  • Justice
  • Purety
  • Love
  • Commendable
  • Maturity/Growth
  • Praise   

This is what Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged when he said, "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter," 

In this season of cruelty in American, let's refuse to be silent. 

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