Grace

Washington State Patrol Trooper Gary Miller, his wife, Washington State Patrol communications manager Anne Miller-Hewitt, and Washington State Patrol Trooper Kristopher Sperry were burned to death early Monday at the Miller residence near Yakima, Washington. I believe they were targeted by organized crime (Mexican and American) for fighting the drug scourge in their community, which included Wenatchee in Chelan County.

Dear Lord grant Gary Miller, Anne Miller-Hewitt, and Kristopher Sperry grace at the moment of their "awful overtaking." Thank you Lord.

"...for God time is infinitely malleable and he will have heard what the poet (and the reader) asks even now a month or a century on:

The prayer thou hearst me making
have, at the awful overtaking,
heard; have heard and granted
grace that day grace was wanted.

It is all one can do...only God can be in at the end, only the Father can help there."
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "A Life," Paul Mariano