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Have you seen my lord?

      Not too long ago a couple of women were given a new truck and compensation when the truck they were driving was mistaken for the one Dorner was driving.  

   Two women who unless that truck had shades pulled down over the windows or they were tinted very dark looked nothing like the suspect the police were searching for, but their truck was shot up so many times it was un-repairable.

    A young unarmed 17 year old boy is walking at night with a hoodie and an armed man named Zimmerman chooses to question him and a confrontation begins and now that young man is gone.

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    There is a biblical story about a woman named Mary Magdalene who goes to a tomb to search for her lord. Have you seen my lord? She asks the angels. Then she searches out Peter and is told,

    “Woman why do you search for the living among the dead?

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  There is a consciousness in our society that is dying and it is the awareness of the value of a human life.  We are not animals to be preyed upon.  What are the morals a person holds in his heart for another human being when he is “doing his job?” What are the values a person has when she speaks to another human being?

    In a video game there is a defense button and an attack button, there is no button for compassion, and it is this awareness that has infected our youth and society.

   It is not the justice system that took a young man’s life, nor is it a racial issue that shot up the blue truck driven by a woman. It wasn’t even a gun. It was the absence of security in one’s self.

      “They have taken away my lord, and I don’t know where to find him.”

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