{"id":53617,"date":"2024-03-12T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/?p=53617"},"modified":"2024-03-25T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:14:13","slug":"too-many-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/2024\/03\/too-many-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many tears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Texas shattering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If some Word somewhere uttered this world <br>into being, it mispronounced itself.<br>Word may have stuttered or lost the grammar <br>of language, left creation unbalanced,<br>so we have swung round to deceptive speech <br>and lost touch with Word\u2019s life-creating promise. <br>This world has created words of its own,<br>built itself a life-denying language<br>more concerned with securing questionable <br>rights than saving innocent lives,<br>avoiding any responsibility,<br>disregarding Word\u2019s ongoing offer of life.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/2024\/03\/guns-winter-2024\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53780 img-fluid alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/Guns-ToC-ad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/Guns-ToC-ad.png 1700w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/Guns-ToC-ad-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/Guns-ToC-ad-696x1024.png 696w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/Guns-ToC-ad-768x1129.png 768w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/Guns-ToC-ad-1044x1536.png 1044w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/Guns-ToC-ad-1393x2048.png 1393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A ritual too frequent<\/strong><br><em>Uvalde held 11 funerals that week.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burial bells at Sacred Heart rang out <br>sadly familiar tones as the sexton<br>and a younger priest complete essential <br>services for the now smaller family <br>gathered before the pall placed early<br>by bearers in a newly opened section<br> of graveyard still without monuments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Focused on the failure of many<\/strong><br><em>Spreading blame for the Uvalde attack.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With studied disregard for legislation<br>they proudly approved in last year\u2019s session, <br>a Texas House panel found shelter<br>accusing others of failure to stop<br>the teenager carrying deadly weapons <br>their own actions made easily available <br>and hid their continued refusal to adopt <br>any restriction on any person\u2019s<br>easy purchase of rapid fire rifles <br>behind their strict constructionist veils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Too many tears<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">too many constructionists covering their ass <br>with too many thoughts and too many prayers <br>too many excuses for bullets and bodies<br>and too many mourners in too many places, <br>too many clergy too hesitant to speak<br>too many leaders too beholden to lead <br>too many too silent for too many years <br>too many funerals and too many tears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas shattering If some Word somewhere uttered this world into being, it mispronounced itself.Word may have stuttered or lost the grammar of language, left creation unbalanced,so we have swung round to deceptive speech and lost touch with Word\u2019s life-creating promise. 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