What Really Matters

Tomorrow will mark one year since the dreadful death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the protests that followed that involved rioting, looting, destruction, and ultimately even more deaths. Add to that the growing tension over what the right way to express pain and outrage should be. We have all witnessed arguments that have sprung up in communities, between neighbors and within families over whether to say “Black Lives Matter”, “Blue Lives Matter” or “All Lives Matter”. So when we came across this message at a middle school in a racial mixed neighborhood, it had a very stunning effect.

WOW! There is was…truth and wisdom simply spelled out on a school yard chain linked fence with prickly pods from a near by tree. There is no way to know if it was written by an inspired student, a teacher, or someone from the neighborhood just passing by. But it really doesn’t matter because no matter who put it up there, it was clearly a message from God. When all is said and done what really matters?…Love Matters.