Love > Guns

I was driving down the street a few days ago. I paused at a stop sign, and I looked to my right where stood a sign posted in someone's front yard that read,


"Stop Shooting. We Love You." 

This sign touched me very deeply. For one thing I felt a sincere love for the family who put it in their yard. Right now in Pittsburgh, and in many other places throughout the world people are killing one another with a gun. More tragically than that many of the victims of gun violence are children and youth.

This sign also refueled my heart with pure love that I felt was recently slipping away from me. For someone to take such a violent act and to place it with the word love simply touched me. It reminded me that we need to love one another more radically and unconditionally. We need to wake up from our dreamy state and look around at all of the people in our lives that we can love every day instead of spreading hate, anger, gossip, judgement, or silence to those that are in need. We can do more.


"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you... yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand." - Mother Teresa


I did a bit of research and I found a write up about the signs. It is a project being done by a woman named "Vanessa German, a 36-year-old performance and visual artist living in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. German has gained publicity locally for “Love Front Porch,” an art project that encourages kids to stop by her house to paint, sculpt and create." Read more about the project here - http://theciviccommons.com/blog/stop-shooting-we-love-you.