Being a Redskins fan it has been hard this week. I truly recognize that football is a game and must always be kept in perspective. It is a game that is played on a field with a ball and men. Sadly enough this past week has transcended into our personal lives and communities. The game has forced me to look at my life and the way I live and value life.
Another young man lost his life in an act of senseless violence. Like I stated before being a lifelong Skins fan it has affected my family this time. Not that I have not cared about the other hundreds of young people that have been murdered across America, but I guess I have not directly been touched by this national tragedy so closely. As a society have we developed a numbness or acceptance for this type of behavior? Even closer to me is the problem in the Black community. Being Black I wonder how much lower we have to go before we start looking up! The decline of the family and values that have transcended down from generation to generation has disappeared! I am really nervous about our future.
Life in its purest form has a price and it is worth something. I guess in our community we have not settled on the price. Let's be real if we don't deal with this sooner than later it will take care of itself. Our sons will be in the same place the cemetery. Where can we do and what can we do? Many people are offering different solutions and many and been tried and failed already. Being a father and mentor to many young men the only thing I have been able to offer is the Lord. He has not failed yet! God can change people and communities if we let Him. God has been reduced to the role of man. God wants to be the center of our beings and lives, not the problems solver after we created a mess and can't clean up. (Although He is able) People let's Love that's the key. There is no hope in the World only in Christ!
37 Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40
