“We don’t see things as they are;
We see things as we are.”

Anais Nin

St Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church

Please pray for St Mary's in Lynnwood, Washington. This fire has caused a substantial amount of damage to their church--much of it in the altar.
The copper on the dome caused a great deal of trouble for the firefighters and they had to pry it off before they could reach the blaze.

Transcending borders and religions and families and life experiences....

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

--Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945