It is Good Friday and we are living at a time when what happened to Jesus is happening to innocent people, especially in Ukraine. Innocent civilians are being put to death, thwarted in their efforts to flee to areas that are safe from Russia's invasion and Russian's efforts to destroy this nation and its people. Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy on us.
May Putin's genocidal efforts be stopped! May Putin's disregard for human life, and ours in whatever way it shows itself, be met with the truth of the sacredness of life, including his own and ours! May the falsehood within him, and within us, be transformed into truth. May the evil within him, and within us, be transformed into goodness!
Lord, have mercy on all of us! Innocent lives are being destroyed, gunned down, not only in war-torn areas of our world, but in our streets and homes, in the wombs of women who kill their unborn child. Besides the unborn, some of those innocent lives are those of children who are victims of domestic violence and street violence. Some of these innocent lives are those mistaken to be a criminal at large! Lord have mercy!
Every day, Lord, you are crucified and buried when an infant, a child, an adolescent, an adult is put to death here and now! Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord have mercy!
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