The Great Divide

by Cristina Henríquez

Perhaps the problem, he thought, was that a person needed faith to be able to see things that did not exist, to imagine a world not yet made.

“We should continue to pray,” he said, smiling, “for in prayer we communicate our true selves with God, but of course that should not stop us from doing other things as well.”

it would have been no use reminding anyone that this was not a party but a protest, for they were who they were, demonstrations of love being more important than demonstrations of pain.