#begetting violence

I am feeling this piece again, over 10 years later. I so desperately want better for the world than what we have.

A man set himself on fire in protest, and the world did not stop on a dime. He was only 25. A man set himself on fire in protest, speaking Truth with a capital T, and I wonder how many people can really accept that truth and allow it into their worldview. A man set himself on fire in protest, and I think it shouldn’t be this way. But it is, and I’ve lost so much of my fire and hope over the…