For Wilshire Baptist Church
With Israel and Hamas in the throes of a new war and Ukraine and Russia battling toward two years of the same, I am at a loss for anything meaningful or worthwhile to write about.
It seems tone deaf to write about anything joyful, light or fun when cities are burning and people are dying. The breaking of our summer heatwave, fall football and the sights and sounds of the state fair don’t seem like suitable topics right now. And, it feels petty to devote any sentences to my personal concerns, whether it be the aftermath of cancer treatments, fatigue from our national political divide or frustration over our community failures.
So maybe the best thing to do is just be silent for a while. Sometimes it is in silence that prayers can best be born in the soul and find their way to the heart and out onto paper or up into the air.