By: Gabriela Yareliz
Our hearts are so heavy with grief, we don’t know where to look.
Spiritually, you feel the darkness. I am tired of seeing Christian children killed in worship and going to school. I am tired of seeing law-abiding citizens get killed and criminals turned loose and defended. I am tired of the political violence that has brought us here— where Charlie Kirk was assassinated in cold blood yesterday in front of us. There was the elderly couple in Queens who did a good deed, invited someone into their home, and were murdered. The young woman in North Carolina killed by a man with a collection of mug shots.
When does this end? When does leadership protect its law-abiding citizens instead of protecting those who do harm? And no… this is not about guns. The irony is the party that is anti-gun is terrorizing and killing innocent people with it. And where there is no gun, someone gets stabbed. This is about character. It’s about evil. It’s about the nation’s justification for evil.
Our freedoms are eroding. Darkness lurks at every corner and is given free rein. We do not have the freedom to worship, to live freely, to speak our conscience, to do good. Evil is called good. And good is hated.
As seen yesterday, you can invite someone to debate, and you pay for it with your life.
The person who told me Charlie Kirk was shot yesterday said it with almost a thrill. It was so disturbing, I didn’t think it was real.
Will leadership simply continue to erode our freedoms with more surveillance in the scheme of protecting those who terrorize us with violence? Or will there be accountability?
Isn’t that the whole point of our legal system? To give just consequences to those who harm— no matter the race, gender, political affiliation? How are we equal under the law without justice?
And here we are on September 11. It has been a dark set of weeks, and only getting darker for our country. We remember an attack on our freedoms and way of life. We remember the failed leadership that flourished after this day on 2001 under that President. We remember that with each act of violence, we lose more than people. Our freedoms keep being eroded in the midst of our grief.
There are people who hate what is good, pure, free and righteous. We cannot let them win.
We must retain our humanity. We must retain our freedom. We were born free. If we lose that, we lose it all.
Today, we remember all who have passed due to violence and attacks. Our hearts are heavy. We also remember that good and freedom are worth fighting for.
We remember. 🙏🏼
GABRIELA YARELIZ 