Hedge Prayer Request

A hedge prayer request from Atlanta Ga.  The word is that ICE / Border Patrol are headed that way for the next stop in this current parade of racist terror and intimidation against anyone that’s not as lily white as Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller.

We need to be absolutely clear on one thing:  These current ICE / Border Patrol sweeps in American cities are NOT about protection, law enforcement, removing “thugs,” “drug dealers,” and “terrorists” from America – despite all the lies the Trump administration and Department of Homeland Security mouthpieces keep saying.  If that were true, then we wouldn’t be reading about people being detained and kidnapped in Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C., Memphis, Charlotte, and now Atlanta (all Democrat led cities, by the way) – and then finding out that the overwhelming majority of these “criminals” turn out to be American citizens who have broken no law – except to be born Latino!

Call it what it is:  A racist, fascist attempt to use the might and power of the United States government to intimidate and terrorize an entire culture of our country.

So, by request:  A hedge prayer of protection for the school children, teachers, and staff of Atlanta schools for what they know – beyond a shadow of a doubt – is coming.  (They’ve already seen it played out in city after city.)

Lord God, there are students, teachers, staff and parents in Atlanta who have seen the images and videos of masked, armed ruffians arresting, detaining, even disappearing people who look like them in city after city as this insidious and hateful injustice perpetrated by our own government against its people continues.  They are scared Lord; terrified as they wonder if their community or school will be next.  Will the Home Depot down the road from them be the next parking lot invaded by masked, armed men committing violence against anyone who remotely looks Hispanic or Latino?  Will school children in DeKalb, Fulton, or Gwinett County watch as their parents are forced into SUV’s and taken away?  Will this insane overreach they learned about in history class from Nazi Germany in the 1930s continue here in America?  Lord God of both mercy and justice, these people need your hedge of protection.  As you did with Job, put your fence of protection around them and their families.  Bless them and keep them from the harm these evil and hate-filled hooligans using Homeland Security or ICE badges as an excuse seem hell bent on visiting upon them.

And for those who seem to think this kind of evil behavior is somehow “patriotic” or remotely righteous?  Lord, let your justice roll down like a mighty flood, sweeping them away to the judgment that awaits them.  Squeeze them with your hedge of thorns until they can neither move nor breathe.  Let the words of Psalm 55:15 be the epitaph that awaits them.  Amen.