Nail-scars & bullet wounds.
"And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."
-Isaiah 1:15
20 million guns sold in 2020
18.5 million sold in 2021
An Emmaus Way / Christotelic response to Isaiah 1:15 might see God's own hands "spread forth" in the cruciform, bearing bullet wounds, pleading with us, "Will you hide your eyes yet again?"
Somehow, we must get beyond the repetitious platitudes of ineffectual "thoughts n prayers" or news-cycle brief faux-outrage to find someone somewhere in whose authentic grief we can sit and practice co-suffering love.
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