Note to Minneapolis Rioters: You Are a Masterpiece

Americans, citizens, brothers, sisters.

People are evil. They do heinous acts.

But, not all.

Right?

Individual rogue acts do not comprise an entire class.

Last week a young man repeatedly punched the face of a senior citizen in a nursing home until his face was bloody. The young man was black. The old man was white.

But that doesn’t make all black men evil, or nursing home staff wicked.

These rogue cops do not represent the entire police force.

There are those who long for another Ferguson. Chaos. Confusion. Hatred. Division. Deception. But it accomplishes nothing. It only hurts you. Us.

You're better than this. Much better.

There are those who manipulate the masses to act like a chaotic class of animals. This behavior grants permission to tighten their strangle hold on our necks. They long to enslave and impoverish until they reign like royalty over peasants. They divide by class and color, barking orders about who belongs where, how you should live and think and vote.

You're better than this. Much better

Dissenters are ridiculed with words like, "you ain't black" or you’re a bunch of white trash "deplorables.”

But that's not the facts. You're not that. You're unique. You have a specific blend of gifts and talents that belong only to you. Think about it. No one. Not one single solitary person in the universe has exactly the same gifts and talents and callings as you. You are YOU-nique…a one of a kind masterpiece. Seriously.

YOU ARE A MASTERPIECE.

You're not just some screaming voice in a mass of chaos.

You're an eagle soaring above all of it. Peacefully gliding along, looking at the big picture, quietly, rising high above the storm.