I was thinking how much my new pair of shoes are hurting my feet. I was preoccupied with that pain for 2 days. Then I attended the first of 5 Memorial Pilgrimages sponsored by Urban Dolorosa at St. Sabina Tuesday night, and my feet were no longer important. The pain in the hearts of all who lost a child to gun violence took center stage in my soul. Then the pain in my feet reminded me of the violence we continue to ignore. The pain in my feet reminded me of too many voices now silent.
Why continue to walk in shoes that hurt my feet? Why are we letting our children die by the bullet? Where are we enduring gun violence in silence like the pain of new shoes?
After I wrote this, the baritone singer, Khary Laurent, while singing, was carrying the shoes of children shot dead. Shoes are no longer hurting their feet.
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