Mary, Mother of Sorrows

Mary, I believes weeps with us today as we ponder the recent murder of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old who, in a gated community in Florida, recently who had gone out to purchase skittles and a tea and was killed a short distance from the family he was visiting.  There is an outrage throughout the U.S. and beyond, an outrage as deep as when Casey Anthony was acquitted of the death of her two-year-old-child Kaylee.  Rightly so, in both cases, according to my opinion.  Thousands of innocent people, everyday, throughout the world are victims of violence, as was Mary's Son Jesus, the Incarnate Word of God.  Are we coming to a point in our society and the world of seeing the power of Justice meet injustice, God meeting man in the darkest moments of our existence through those of us willing to stand up to evil in our own lives and in the lives around us.  Are we approaching a point where we will no longer stand by and allow a Trayvon Martin or a Kaylee Anthony's death be in vain, anymore than Jesus' death was in vain.  Is God creating a new earth and a new heaven right before our eyes, raising us up to new heights of confronting the evils of this world, bringing the darkness into the Light for all to see?  Is each of us moving toward a place where we will no longer tolerate injustices without standing up for the Truth, confronting wrongdoing, as Jesus did in His day and in His society?