I am finally sitting down to read Prayers for Bobby, a book recommended to me by one of our UIC students. This book is all the more poignant for me now because we are gearing up for a counter-celebration next Monday when the anti-gay (anti-everything) group Westboro Baptist Church comes to visit. I have only read through the introduction of the book, but one paragraph already struck me.

Leroy Aarons writes about a California family, the Griffiths, who lost their gay son to suicide.

Most old school horror movie creators will agree that audiences are more afraid of what they cannot see than what is obvious and in their face. Continuing our Lenten theme of engaging grief, loss and darkness, we must address what it is like trying to see in the dark, finding vision in the dark. The prophet Isaiah wrote these verses:

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you that have no money, come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,