In moments as emotions collide with observation do we need adequate reason to weep for those tortured, fallen or enslaved? Must I produce sufficient argument for the tears that fall across my cheeks as gravity naturally pulls them toward the Earth where God may feel them, collect them and He, my Father feel the pain this world exerts upon me? Must I have known their struggle, personally familiar with their lives or is it adequate measure that they were a fellow humans fighting against those influences seeking their defeat or protecting the lives of those around them vulnerable to same assaults? Must they be American to find way to my compassion and mourning for their loss? Am I that discriminate that they must have looked, acted, believed as I do or shared the same nationality in order to provoke my righteous tears and indignation? Must they have lived according to my judgment for it to be Right and Good to honor their passing into the Hands of God? They were my Brothers My Sisters born of the Same Creator whether deprived by design or simple unfortunate birth into a nation that did not respect their equal value, they are still My Family before God. I am not angered by God’s Will having ended their short passing through this temporary life, I am fortified against those wicked few believing themselves merchants of life and disregard of those things God Loves Most, His Created People. If we believe as Americans that ALL are endowed with inalienable rights by their Creator then we must work to assure those rights across boundaries, ideology and nation. We must love beyond our own salvation and fight for the entry of ALL Creation to find their place of rest in God through Christ. No I need no adequate argument for the tears and stomach roil that now capture my heart, mind and soul. My Family has been murdered standing up for their rights and the rights of all men guaranteed in God’s Sovereignty. His Love for them is reason enough for any mourning and honor given them as they go to meet Him. Perhaps my own Love though secondary to His is all the reason that I will ever need to mourn the loss of any one of God’s Children to violence, pain or strife. I pray for them now and for all men before the hour when we go to meet Him for judgment, Mercy and eternity’s infinite residence.