found online by Raymond
From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
America,
Your children are beautiful.
They are original, once-in-the-history-of-the-planet human beings with a near limitless capacity to do and be extraordinary. They are wild and bright and funny and lovable.
But they aren’t special.
The fact that your children were born here, doesn’t endow them with greater worth or deeper humanity than children who weren’t.
It doesn’t make them more deserving of defense or protection or advocacy.
It doesn’t make their fear more valid or their wounds more grievous.
It doesn’t make their needs more pressing or their disappearance more outrageous.
Or at least it shouldn’t.
We’re roughly 4.5% of the world’s population, but act like we’re anything from 51 to 100%. And we have enjoyed a fantasy that that is how it should and always will be.