You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not on your record?

Counting and mourning:

1. Still Trayvon.

2. Still Marco.

3. Still Normandy, Iraq, Rwanda, and Nigeria.

I add my tears to God’s.

4. The spirit-breaking body-loathing culture within which we dare women to thrive.

5. The land claimed, the homes built, without regard for the displacement of others.

6. The lives stamped with “illegal,” the families torn apart by fortified lines in the sand.

The tears of the people are on God’s record.

7. Rape.

8. Poverty.

9. Pollution.

How long has God been counting?

God knows. The LORD, whose word I praise, knows.
The One in whom I trust does not forget.
God knows.

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