Thought for the morning: You know that quote about whoever causes one life to be lost, it’s as though they have destroyed a whole world, but whoever saves a single person, it’s as though they have saved a whole world? It’s from Mishna Sanhedrin 4:5. It’s the injunction given to witnesses in capital cases. Which means that it isn’t just a nice aphorism about people in general, it’s meant to prevent miscarriages of justice. It’s meant to apply to people who are suspected of crimes that might warrant the death penalty (let alone petty crimes!). Even if you don’t know all the details. Even if you’re not sure if they were resisting arrest or just trying to catch their balance, their breath. It is THEIR lives you must be most careful with, you, the witnesses, the bystanders. You hold their lives in your hands and you have a responsibility to save and sustain their lives, to not allow their whole world to be destroyed. Black. Lives. Matter.