Lawrence Hall
Dispatches
for the Colonial Office
Little Thoughts of God
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us
is loved, each of us is necessary.
-Papa Benedict, 24 April 2005
Our children play with little
toy trucks and trains
Comb Barbie’s hair and then arrange
Ken’s tie
They get fussed at for
pulling the puppy’s tail
They cuddle up with kittens
and Winnie-the-Pooh
Our children create worlds
with construction paper
Discover Narnia in a new box
of crayons
They get fussed at for writing
on the wall
They squirm in church; they
tickle Daddy’s beard
Our children love their
chapter books (and us!)
“Is this a picture of a
pirate ship?”
They get fussed at for asking
soooooo many questions
“Daddy, will you read us a
story now?”
Dear Lord –
Let our children grow up and
make us proud
Dear Lord –
Let our children grow up
In 2022 firearms accounted for 30% of deaths in
children 1 to 17
-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health
Annual Firearm Violence Data | Center for Gun Violence
Solutions
