There are some days that grief comes in this work. I received a message over the weekend from one our pastor friends in a refugee camp. His sister-in-law and her family had been deliberately burned to death in their dwelling in the country from which my friend and his family had run.
A country in Europe is drafting laws that would make it a crime, including jail time, for giving a cup of water or a sandwich to an asylum seeker in this country.
In our own country, we are separating children from their parents at the border and apparently losing track of where some of the children have been placed. Many of these coming across the border are fleeing for their lives from violence and murder in the countries from which they come.
All these could be politicized. That is not my intent. I grieve that we have lost touch with the fact that all these are real people, created in the image of God, the same as you and I.
Lord, have mercy.