Crying out loud

Today’s focus is crying out loud! For the past week, I have been trying to capture my emotions regarding the lives gone too soon. Every time I tried to express the emptiness, the sorrow, the anguish and the raw emotion, I was overcome by the tendency to cry. At the time, I didn’t quite understand why the words were so difficult to manifest, but after waiting on God, the message is evident and crystal clear: it is ok to cry out loud! So without feeling embarrassed, without invoking a need to apologize, I need to cry out loud. Cry for the lives gone too soon. Cry for the emptiness that can never be expunged. Cry for the vision and practice of love that seems to only be emphasized, when we lose something or someone so precious they cannot be replaced. Cry for the damage ignorance continues to bring. Cry for the world that experiences truth and still struggles with its acceptance.
We live not in a place or time when differences are unusual or obscured.They exist. They are real. What makes them so distracting is our unwillingness to recognize our equality and remember that there is still, HOPE: God never made a lesser or greater man, He made an equal man; equal in existence, equal in experience, equal in the capacity to give and to love. Thus I cry out loud, for the mind that fails to comprehend, for the eyes that fail to see, for the touch that fails to give, and for the heart that fails to feel. We are equal participants, parts of a greater meaning and a greater existence and why we struggle unnecessarily at love, at forgiveness, at unconditional acceptance, remains a useless practice, until we do something to make the difference and the change!