Every life matters

Witnessing the footage of George Floyd being restrained by a policeman using a sickening technique of kneeling on his neck, then watching him pleading for his life repeatedly shouting “I can’t breathe,” sent a message to the world that injustice such as that is inherently evil.

Black lives matter

That is a fact that is absolute

In fact

Every life matters.

I stand in these words with all those black people who are fed up with the injustice they have suffered for decades.

Enough is enough

And

I stand with them.

Listen

The human race is just that, human.

There is no hierarchy or layered order of things other than what man creates.

God created us equal.

Every life matters to him

Every life should matter to each other

For all the injustice of the past, slavery, segregation, apartheid and every other kind of evil act that has stuck to history like a malignant deposit, then understand this, love, respect and justice will win in the end.

Victory will come when man lays down his differences and loves his fellow man no matter what race, creed, colour or views a person may have.

As I viewed the footage on my iPad of George Floyd pleading for air, I paused the scene and looked straight into his frightened eyes. In that moment I saw the pain of a downtrodden society. I saw the injustice of a world full of false power and misplaced judgement and hate. I saw a human being, a life that matters being stifled by a mad man using his position to inflict maximum suffering.

Every life matters

We are all the same

Human beings

I also saw something else as I looked into Mr Floyd's eyes.

I saw Jesus.

George Floyd’s pain was identical to a man who two thousand years ago got nailed to a cross because of injustice and mad men’s positional deployment of maximum suffering.

Out of that suffering came a love we have never known

Out of that suffering came an opportunity for change like we have never known

Out of that suffering life became meaningful.

Because of that suffering

Every life matters

So

My prayer is that through the death of George Floyd, we will all completely get that enough is enough.

That we will breathe in love for each other no matter what colour, race or religion or whatever.

That we will take this opportunity to change

To make the world we live in a better place

To make our communities safer through respect for one another

And

To know that our life is meaningful.

Every life matters.