When will we grow up?  As many people know, U.S. President Barack Obama has opened a Twitter account.  Although he's received millions of affirmations, he has also received a small percentage of extremely racist responses.  Regrettably, from what I can read, all of them originate in the U.S.
     Granted, everyone is shaped by her environment and upbringing, and granted, everyone lives according to different life experiences, but one wonders how and why, in the twenty-first century, in the supposedly "civilized" West, people persist in invoking such despicable language to describe their fellow human beings.  It's tragic, it's obscene, it's deplorable.
     Indeed, the world is fractured and broken, and indeed, we humans are terribly bent beings.  Yet racism seems almost metaphysical.  It's not advantageous from an evolutionary standpoint, but it remains, year after year after year.  Surely, this makes God weep, makes him weep to see his human creation treating each other with such disdain.
     Although humanity broke itself, only God can repair and redeem his creation. Physicality cannot undo a metaphysical break.  I pray that God's love, in Jesus, continues to break forth.
     Pray for your fellow human beings.