As I wake up this morning to yet more news reports of the terrorist attacks in Paris yesterday. My heart breaks a little more for everyone in France, and especially for those families that lost loved ones. I knew last night that I wanted to write something and spent all night thinking of nothing else but the terror that exists in this world. What was I going to say? What could I say? And finally now I know. I have seen so much hate in the past few months. More than I can ever recall seeing in my lifetime. Whether it’s about a “Red Cup”, racisms, hate for police, religious views, or even your choice in who you want marry. I think that it is devastating that I am having to raise my children in a world of so much HATE. A place where they are no longer judged for who they are as person but for the color of their skin, their choices of God, and who they choose to be with. I was taught that it isn’t about what’s on the outside but what’s on the inside that counts. If you stopped judging for a moment, just a moment and looked around you wouldn’t see color, religion, or red cups. You would see people! People that struggle everyday just the way you do. In the midst of such tragedy I ask you to put aside your differences. Whether you realize it or not war is in our midst and we will all be fighting side by side. At the end of the day every person is the same. If you cut us, do we not all bleed the same color? So stand tall world, stand united. We are not one nation but one world. We are a sea of differences and an array of colors but together we make up a beautiful rainbow.