Sisters, be mindful of what you wear and do not use your sexuality to control men or win their affection.  Although it is ultimately the guy’s responsibility to guard his eyes and his thoughts, women should serve their brothers by not flaunting their sexuality.  This doesn’t mean dress like a nun.  Please continue to celebrate the God given beauty you have, but also be mindful to not be provocative in how you do so. 

Brothers, be mindful of your sisters emotions.  Be careful to not emotionally manipulate your sisters, making them think they are more special to you than they truly are.  Make sure you make your intentions clear with them from the beginning, and don’t lead them on by keeping them in the awkward “friend zone.”  Be a good brother and guard their relationships with their future husbands, and don’t take advantage of their generous posture of love and affection toward you.”

If you’ve spent anytime growing up in the church, you’ve probably heard sermons like this when it came to teaching on gender dynamics.  Generalizations like these are helpful, because they can help us identify the temptations we are most susceptible to fall into.  In this case, it is often tempting for women to misuse their sexuality for attention and control and for men to emotionally manipulate women to fill their need for intimacy without commitment.  However, it would be foolish to think that these respective issues are ones that men and women uniquely face.  The reality is women are just as susceptible to lusting physically (so men, keep your shirts on…) and men are just as susceptible to being emotionally manipulated.  Therefore, the application can be switched around very easily.  Brothers, be mindful to not be physically provocative, and sisters, be careful to not emotionally manipulate your brothers.

The overarching teaching is clear- do not cause anyone to stumble by being mindful of one another.  The proceeding specific instructions to men and women are then generalized instructions of how to apply this overarching teaching to typically observed gender dynamics.  They are meant to be to interpreted in light of the overarching teaching to not cause one another to stumble.

With that said, have you ever noticed that the teaching found in Eph. 5:21-33 has the exact same structure?  Why is then that so many Christians read it with a completely different interpretive lens?

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” ³² This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Christians often interpret this passage to mean that men and women have set roles in marriage. Women are meant to submit to their husbands who have been put as leaders over them, and men are suppose to exercise Christ-like love in their leadership of their wives. However, does this mean that women are not suppose to learn to love like Christ?  Surely not!  Or are men not suppose to learn to submit to their wives as well? If so, what do you with verse 21 that clearly says both husband and wife must learn to submit to one another? Isn’t the analogy of being like Christ and the Church equally applicable to both genders within the interpretive framework of mutual submission?

The overarching teaching in Eph. 5 is clear- submit to one another out of reverence to Christ who is the true head of the relationship (interpretation added).  The proceeding metaphor of Christ and the church is therefore used as a generalized application of this overarching teaching speaking into specific gender dynamic issues in the church of Ephesus.  In light of its context, this passage doesn’t seem like it was meant to be a teaching on the complementary roles of men and women in marriage, but fundamentally sounds like an exhortation to husbands and wives to practice mutual submission with a practical illustration of how to apply this in the commonly experienced gender dynamics of their day.

What are your thoughts on this text?

Dear Mei,

You are about to turn 11 this month. So crazy. It feels like just yesterday I went to see you in the hospital when you were born. It’s even more crazy that I was actually the one driving the car when I went with grandma. Tonight I looked at some of the old photo booth pictures we took together. I don’t know if you remember, but you use to love taking those with me. We spent hours taking dumb pictures together. But your interests are changing rapidly as you grow up. When I go home now, instead of begging me to play Monopoly with you or to take you out, you would rather play with your other friends or watch TV. But it’s okay. I know that you need to grow up, and I’m proud of the young woman that you are becoming. It just scares me to think that sooner than later your interests will move towards boys…. DAH!

Anyways, I don’t know if you’ll ever read this, but I just want you to know that I’ll always love you. Every time I see you and you give me that awkward hug to greet me, my heart melts with deep love for you. You are such a beautiful, smart, and talented girl. Your smile brightens up my day, and every time you call me “goh goh” it makes me just want to hold you… too bad you always get embarrassed and squirm away. Mei, I pray for you almost every night and even though I’m not there to show Him to you, I have faith that God will reveal himself to you someday soon. I’m sorry that I wasn’t around more as you were growing up, but I hope to be around a lot more in the future. You might not want to play with me as much and you’ll probably have better things to do than to hang out with your goh goh, but please don’t ever stop taking pictures with me. I hope we have many more together in the future, in many different places, with many different people.

I’ll love you forever, whatever you do, whoever you become, I’ll love you.

Love,

Goh Goh.

(I can definitely tell that we’re related :o)

On behalf of the entire worship team I just want to thank you all for an incredible weekend of seeking and meeting the Lord!  Thank you for your willingness to try new things and be stretched in your expressions of worship.  Most of all thank you for your openness to the Holy Spirit and what He was doing in our midsts.  I know many of you have expressed what a blessing we’ve been to you, but I want to just share that we all feel the same way about each of you!  As musicians, God really invited each of us into a deeper level of prophetic leadership through music this weekend and we saw the Holy Spirit lead us in new ways as a band.  God also did incredible things in each of our lives individually through the conference.

Thank you again, and we look forward to seeing you all again. Here are the chords and links to youtube versions of the songs we did this weekend. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Blessings,

Joe and the WCC2012 Worship Team

Zip File for ALL Charts

(Click to download, chords may have been transposed during the sets)

Worship Sets:

(Links go to Youtube video)

Fri. PM

1. Happy Day by Tim Hughes
2. No Other Name by Freddie Rodriguez
3. So Good to Me by William Matthews/Cory Asbury
4. How He Loves by John Mark Mcmillan (popularized by Jesus Culture)
5. Made For You by Matt Gilman

Sat. AM

1. We Want to See Jesus Lifted High by Matt Redman
2. You Are Good by Israel Houghton
3. Heme Aqui
4. You Paid It All (unpublished, Right click to download file)

Sat. PM

1. You Are Good
2. Again I Say Rejoice by Israel Houghton
3. You Are the Living Word by Fred Hammond
4. You Paid It All
5. Made for You

1. Consuming Fire by Tim Hughes
2. God of This City by Chris Tomlin
3. Send Revival Start With Me by Matt Redman
4. Your Beloved by Brent Helming
5. Heme Aqui

Sun. AM

1. No Other Name
2. We Want to See Jesus Lifted High
3. This is Our God by Chris Tomlin
4. Be Thou My Vision
5. Here I Am to Worship by Tim Hughes

Sun. PM

1. Happy Day
2. You Are Good
3. So Good To Me
4. In Christ Alone by Stuart Townend
5. You Paid It All
6. How He Loves

Mon. AM

1. Happy Day
2. The Stand by Hillsongs Music
3. Heme Aqui
4. No Other Name

Wow… typing all that out made me realize how much we sang this weekend!  It was fun friends!

Am I exaggerating? Perhaps. But when busyness hits it can certainly feel that way (for an F that is… not sure how Ts process it). I was doing so well this quarter. Sure, I was already busy last quarter, but I made it through without too many scratches. So I thought I could handle more this quarter. Three classes became four. 20 hours of work became 30. I took on new projects at church. Teaching engagements, weekend conferences, more meetings, exciting projects at work- all amazing opportunities that I picked up like a fat kid in the candy store. Seemed like a good idea at the time. That is until the belly ache hit.

Well it hit today. I’m just tired. One step away from burn out. I try to sleep a full night, and yet I’m still tired. I look at my calendar for the next four weeks and I just feel anxious.  I wonder when I’m going to sleep in, spend time with Jesus, or just chill with my friends.

It’s hard because busyness is celebrated by our culture. We often brag about how many classes we’re taking, how many people we’re meeting up with, or even how few hours of sleep we can live off of. We take pride in our many accomplishments, degrees, hobbies, and responsibilities- all of which take time. The good resumes are always the ones filled with volunteer work, certificates, and accomplished projects. Just imagine writing under your accomplishments, “I sleep 8 hours a night and have really healthy personal relationships.”

Even in Christian culture (perhaps especially in Christian culture) busyness is seen as the mark of good leadership. Pastors are celebrated for how many sermons they’ve preached, books they’ve written, and people they’ve reached. Name one Christian leader who is praised for the number of hours they’ve spent with Jesus or for keeping a consistent Sabbath. And yet it’s clear from Scripture that we must “Remember the Sabbath…” Right up there with don’t kill and don’t sleep with someone else’s wife is a holy call to fight against busyness. We don’t celebrate the murderers, the liars, and the cheaters. Why is it we celebrate the busy people? The ones who forget the Sabbath?

Busyness causes us to lose focus on the things most important to us. It disconnects us from God. It disconnects us from those we love the most and prevents us from enjoying the goodness of this world. And perhaps worst of all it causes us to become the kind of people that we’re so busy trying not to become! When I’m busy I know I become more irritable, less open to others, less sensitive to the Holy Spirit, less efficient, less productive, more selfish, more depressed, fatter, more negative, and basically more of everything bad in my life. I more easily hurt the people I love the most and am too busy to even realize it! And even if I do realize it, I’m too tired to actually deal with it. What’s worse is once you realize how busy you are it’s difficult to untangle yourself from it. You’ve already made all the commitments. You’ve already started spinning all the plates. It would be irresponsible to just let them all drop. So then what are you suppose to do?

Well for me, I think it’s pretty simple. First and foremost, I need to guard my time with the Father. You see Jesus do this when he pulls away to spend time with the Father, and I mean Jesus was pretty busy with saving the world and all. Secondly, I need to guard my time with those I love most. I love all my friends. I love all those I minister to. But I also recognize God has entrusted me with very specific relationships to cultivate and that give me life. I need to always prioritize these people. Finally, I need to remember to keep time for myself. I need to exercise. I need to take a day of silence and just veg, even watch TV.

Yes. I know. Easier said than done. But I know even as I’ve spent a few hours today reorienting myself to these priorities, I feel the anxiety leaving me. I feel re-connected with my God and right with those I love most. I feel my overall outlook on the next month improving and my faith rising that my God is my portion in all I have to do. I’m still busy, but at least I can tackle everything I need to do at full capacity, with my loved ones hold me up, and faith that my God is bigger than all my busyness.

I love watching these guys worship.  Especially the bass drum, bongo dude.  He just makes me want to smile and laugh, in a good way.  I wish I was there when they recorded this.  Too bad the music is a bit overproduced and you can’t hear like 50% of what’s going on in the mix.  Oh well, beautiful song nonetheless.

Bethel… I will visit you someday soon!

In the past, focusing my thoughts and prayers on all the things I was waiting for in life caused me to fall into a pit of self pity and depression. In fact, much of my Daniel fasts in past years were spent dealing with the deep sense of emptiness I felt that I was waiting on God to fill. They were really difficult times. Times when my brokenness and loneliness seemed to sit on the surface of my life; and yet, God met me every year, reminding me that he was with me. I came out of these seasons stronger, with a more refined character, and with fresh insight on the nature of God. Through these seasons I began to see waiting not as an enemy to avoid, but as a refinement process God takes all of us through. I saw it as a necessary surgery that Dr. God uses to heal and refine broken, sinful people.

Yesterday during my prayer time I felt led to listen to “Longing for a New Jerusalem” by Matt Gilman.  I’ve heard this song before, but there was something fresh that the Spirit was speaking to me as I was moved to tears worshipping to this song. The song (attached below) paints an amazing lyrical picture of the end times vision of the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven. It speaks to the return of King Jesus who will usher in the fullness of the Kingdom of God, the eternal reign of God, when all things shall be made new.  When our relationship with God will be fully restored and we would know him as a bride knows her husband. When every tear shall be wiped from our faces, and there will be no more pain and suffering. As I was soaking in the words of this prophetic song, I felt my soul cry, “Yes! Yes, I long for that! I want that! I wait eagerly for this! Come King Jesus!”  It was one of the most intense desires of longing and wanting I’ve ever experienced. For a brief moment, all of the other things I’ve been waiting for paled in comparison to waiting for His return.

And then it hit me. Waiting is not just a process. Waiting is not just a necessary evil for healing, refinement, and character development. Waiting is not a test to push through so that God can bless.  Waiting is worship.  Sure, it may only be worship this side of eternity, but waiting is the reasonable response of God’s people living in the here, but not yet. Waiting is prayer. It drives us to to cry out for Jesus to return and for His Kingdom to be unfolded in our midst. Waiting is guidance. It orients our lives toward Jesus, driving us to seek Him since only He can satisfy. Waiting is blessing.  It draws us into deeper relationship with Christ and increases our knowledge of Him. Waiting is remembering. It allows us to tap into the cry of generations of Christians who’ve come before us. Waiting is prophetic. It focuses our minds and hope on a future reality where all things will be made new.

So often, I think that if I can just wait a little longer, just remain faithful for another few months, God will “break through” and fulfill all of my deepest longings. After all, if waiting is about refinement and testing, then the end of this season of waiting must be near… right?  But the reality is, waiting is an inescapable aspect of Christian spirituality, and a sure tell sign of following Jesus. The moment we stop waiting is the moment we say that what I have right now is better than what is to come at His return; and this is the moment we stop worshipping Jesus and turn to worship idols.  Furthermore, the practice of engaging our soul’s inner longings and allowing them to feed our longing for the return of Jesus is a difficult, but necessary, spiritual discipline to practice.

With that said, I count all other things I am waiting for in life as a blessing as it reminds me of who it is I ultimately wait for, and I join in with the continual intercession of the Spirit and the bride. “Come!  Come Lord Jesus Come!  Come!”

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.

-Rev. 22:17

In short, what’s new in my life can be summarized in four words:

job…

I feel SO blessed as I think about the fact that I’ve been working for the past two months. After only a month of job searching, God provided me with a half-time job that will allow me both go to school and do a church internship. I’m the Marketing and Resource Manager for ACCION San Diego, a secular nonprofit providing resources and micro-loans ato San Diego business owners who don’t qualify for traditional financing. This job is so much more than just a source of income, but an opportunity to really explore and learn what it means to live missionally in the workplace. I believe God is going to use my time with ACCION to teach me how to reach the lost and bring revival in cubicles. My time here so far has not only been meaningful, but super fun as I’ve built some good relationships with my co-workers.

       …school…

One of the main reasons I left InterVarsity was because I wanted to commit more time to seminary. This year I will be taking 3-4 classes a quarter with the hope that I could graduate in 2014 (2 years). Although I’m nervous about my capacity to both work and take so many classes, I am motivated to get done with school so I can move onto my plans to church plant.

                 …internship…

An important component of the M. Div. program is the professional internship, as it allows the seminarian to apply what he or she is learning to a real life ministry context. I will be starting the pastoral internship this year with my church Coast Vineyard. My developmental goals for the internship include: continuing to grow in my teaching gifts and solidify my theological convictions, experiencing and being exposed to aspects of ministry that I couldn’t experience in IV (baptisms, marriage counseling, church government, etc.), and preparing myself to church plant.

                                 …church plant

I’ve felt called to church plant in the Bay Area since highschool. Though many interests and passions have changed through the years, my call to plant has oddly (perhaps soverignly) remained constant. Although this is still 3-4 years away, I feel that God is inviting me to intentionally pursue this call in this season. I’m not only trying to finish school, but intentionally seeking out resources, mentors, and Bay Area networks. I’m also praying for new ministry partners, while maintaining the relationships I already have (yes, you). This includes not only seeking prayer support, but continuing to seek financial support as well. Yes. You read that correctly. I’m going to continue to fundraise. **More on this here.

I hope this gives you a good glimpse of all the exciting things going on for me. I think my biggest worry in this season is not having the time to do everything I need to do. If you want to chat more about what’s happening, I would love to talk! Just let me know.

In this issue:
-2009-2010 Summary
-Jesus in the Numbers
-”One” Praise Night Recap
-Senior Testimony: Joanne Shiau

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This morning I woke up at 5:30am to drive up to Irvine to attend my first Catalyst West conference, and after one day I can say its been well worth it. This is turning out to be one of my favorite Christian conferences that I’ve ever attended. The innovation, passion, and energy in this place is contagious. It was crazy walking into the plenary this morning to see large confetti filled balloons and helium filled “UFO” saucers being bumped around to club music!
The theme this year is “Unusual Tomorrow.”  Andy Stanley set the scene for us this morning by challenging us to remember the dreams and visions that we had when we first started ministry. He reminded us that the present realities of today often squash the dreams that we have for tomorrow, and that as leaders of the church we need to be continually calling our churches to chase after a better tomorrow.  And because the  dreams that God puts on our heart are always too big for us to accomplish by our own efforts and resources, it becomes tempting in light of our current realities to think that our “unusual tomorrow” is out of reach.

That is until you remember that it is a message of the most impossible event, about the most unusual person, spread through the most unqualified messengers that overcame all odds and established itself in the ancient world.  Andy reminded us that to the persecuted church under Rome would have seen the reality that we live in today as the most impossible “unusual tomorrow.”  That it was only through the most supernatural ways that this message could have survived, spread, and thrived.

In the same way our wildest, craziest dreams for the Kingdom are all possible through God. The same power and Spirit that enabled the gospel to spread throughout the ancient world is still working in us today. That through the most unlikely circumstances and most difficult opposition our dreams and visions can be made a reality. And as Andy reminded us of this, I felt the Lord breathing new life into my visions, my dreams.  Old ideas that started to feel foggy or unclear, plans that I’ve begun to settle on in my mind because they felt too big all of a sudden felt within grasp again.

All that said, I’m ready to keep dreaming for an Unusual Tomorrow!

Soo…. What are dreams of an Unusual Tomorrow that you have?

Today as I joined hundreds of others on campus to say “no” against blatant acts racism, I watched person after person take the mic and share their hearts. Some shared impassioned pleas to actions, others shared words of solidarity, and still others shared their pain and fear. As I stood there for 3 hours listening, I began to ask two very disturbing questions. First of all, where was the Asian American presence? As a majority minority on this campus, do we not have the responsibility to at least say we stand is solidarity with those who are suffering? But I think what was more troubling was I kept asking where was the Christian presence? Of the 30 or so people who spoke this morning representing everyone from the LGBT to faculty and even an openly Communist representative, I did not witness one person represent Jesus in the midsts of all this.

What is Our Gospel?

Now I don’t write this to condemn or guilt trip Christians. I mean after all it’s not like I stood up to speak. Still as I stood there in my silence I was deeply bothered. Where was the gospel in the midst of all this? Where was the good news that Jesus had to offer, because I believe Jesus would have much to say! And to be honest, even if a Christian did take the mic, most of us would have nothing useful to say anyways. I mean who of us would actually have a “gospel,” a word from God, that would actually sound like “good news” to those in the crowd? And really this speaks less about our willingness or desire to speak and act (because Christians have all sorts of ideas on what do be doing during this time), but rather how detached we are to the real brokenness of the campus and how paralyzed we are because we don’t actually know what Jesus would say or do. And let’s get this straight.  It’s not because he doesn’t tell or demonstrate it for us, but because we don’t care to listen or see.

First Steps

So what do I think is a Christian response to all of this? I think the first step is simple, and many of us have already been taking that step. We must enter into the brokenness and identify with the brokenness, incarnating our presence among those who are hurting. We must open our eyes to the situation and not just brush it off as an unimportant secular protest. It is important, because I know God’s heart breaks along with all those who are crying out in pain, fear, and anger.

Second, I believe we must pray. I can never discount the responsibility as Christians that we have to pray. I have been encouraged by the many organic prayer meetings that have been popping up all over campus in the last 12 hours. I truly believe our strength as the people of God is found in our cries for Him to move. I believe that God hears our prayers and that the spiritual atmosphere of this campus literally shifts when we cry out for Kingdom realities to come into being. As people who have eyes to see the spiritual realm on this campus, we have a responsibility to fight the spiritual battle that wages here. And can I just say this, Satan chooses no side except his own. As people who understand this reality, we must be able to transcend the current lines of debate and fight the true enemy through our prayers.

A Dual Responsibility

However, I think it would be easy to stop there. People of faith, but Christians in particular, are excellent at spiritualizing everything, and not actually taking action to make anything a reality. I believe as Christians we have been given a double charge and responsibility to not only engage in the spiritual realities of this world but also the physical realities. After all, we must be willing to become the answers to our prayers.

So what are we suppose to do? Once we’ve incarnated ourselves among the broken, how do we not allow the brokenness overwhelm to the point of anger or hopelessness? I know this has been challenging for me as the gospel compels me to care and enter the brokenness, while not getting carried away in the emotional escalation of anger and retaliation. Yet this tension makes me feel paralyzed. Like all I can do is gather in my holy huddle and pray, leaving me with this question- wouldn’t Jesus have done more? Am I suppose to choose a side? Am I suppose to support certain demands and scream certain chants? What greater action does the gospel compel me to do that transcends all of this and serves as a “third way?”

As I said in the beginning, I don’t have all answers to what we should do and I’ve been wrestling with this question for the past week. Still I don’t think it’s as complicated as we may make it to be. First of all, I don’t know which side Jesus would choose, in fact my observation of him in the Bible is that he often refused to choose sides. I do know, however, that if he were here today he would be marching along side of those who are protesting, while also holding the shoulders of our poor Chancellor who is so obviously hurting through all of this. As I think about what kind of action I want to take, I want to be able to say that I stood side by side in solidarity with those who were hurting- serving them, loving them, and fighting with them against injustice- while also recognizing that our true “opponent” is not a fraternity or the school administration, but rather a darker evil in this world that oppresses us through our own institutions and systems.

Further Steps

What does this mean practically? As I mentioned already, I believe we should be out there marching in solidarity with those who are in pain, not representing any human side but rather God’s side that commits to stand with the hurting and the oppressed. We should be out there serving, giving out bottles of water and packets of sunscreen, while offering an open ear or prayer for anyone who might take it. We should be out there fighting for justice, condemning what needs to be condemned (and its not individuals that need to be condemned or made “example” of), because truly behind all the hype we cannot forget that there are real systems of injustice and oppression that exist on this campus. We should be out there at the rallies praying, believing that as we pray we are inviting His presence into the chaos and division. We should just be, knowing that we carry the presence of God with us and just the action of presence in itself is ministry unto others. I know this is a very controversial stance, and I’m not going to be naive enough to think that the outside world (most likely the church) won’t criticize us and think “we’ve chosen a side.”  But in the midst of that we must be clear to why we’re there. We’re not there to promote any specific side or demonize any other side, but rather to be God’s living presence amongst His people.

I also believe we must be asking where else in the midsts of all this can we practice the ministry of presence, because the reality is that there are people hurting on all sides. Perhaps we need to talk to those in the fraternities or those in the “majority” population who might be feeling guilty, confused, or paralyzed in the midst of this. Perhaps we need to just go to different places on campus that God may lead us to and just pray for his presence to rest there. Perhaps we need to practice the ministry of presence for our administration. Today, I sent an email to the chancellor’s office telling Chancellor Fox that I’m praying for her and that God’s presence is with her. I have no idea if she’ll actually read it, but who knows. All that to say, we must be asking God, where is your presence needed on this campus, and whatever He says we must go. Refuse the temptation to gather in the prayer room, but know that where you go His presence goes with you.

Hold Onto the Hope of the Gospel

Finally, we must hold onto the hope and reality of the gospel that at the end of the day true action and justice is not going to come by the sword, but by radical acts of love and forgiveness. As part of the majority population on campus I say that with deep humility, being the first to admit that I haven’t experienced a fraction of the injustice and pain that my under represented brothers and sisters have had. And although that may give me little credibility as I make that my rally cry, I cannot let go of that gospel. Therefore, we must pray for God to raise up in those communities a prophetic voice to scream out above the rest that love and forgiveness is the answer. That instead of constantly trying to make examples of those who hate and oppress, we must forgive and love them. That is the most disarming power in the universe. My greatest fear in the midsts of all of this is that the old mantra of an eye for an eye will just continue to escalate the anger and the hatred. This morning I woke up filled with fear that at some point someone’s going to crack and really do something crazy, and so this must stop now.  We must all be praying that love and forgiveness become the rally cry of this movement. As Dr. King once said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. “