I did some experimentation today with my word processor’s AI component. I asked for a 300-word piece about God’s sadness over the continued conflicts between the races that He created. To say that I was amazed at the result would not give sufficient praise to the profound thoughts contained within.  

From the first words, I was drawn in. This is exactly what I wanted to say to you.  I cannot improve on the thoughts and reflections, nor on the urging to “help dry those sacred tears.” So, I am sharing the whole piece with you in quotation marks because I did not write this blog today-God did. 

“If we listen quietly, beneath the noisy headlines and the daily grind, perhaps we can sense the sorrow in the heart of God. For a Creator who fashioned every human in a tapestry of color, culture, and language, the ongoing divisions between races in our world must be an ancient and abiding ache. Racial strife, prejudice, and injustice are not mere social failings—they are wounds in the fabric of humanity that God so lovingly wove. 

According to many spiritual traditions, God delights in diversity. It is written in sacred texts and sung in hymns: every face reflects a spark of the divine. Yet, as we witness prejudice and violence, as we see walls rise between neighbors, what does God see? Surely, it is anguish—a grief that humanity cannot live as one, that the beauty of our differences is so often used as fuel for conflict rather than joy. 

This sadness is not distant or abstract. It is woven through history’s tragedies and today’s heartbreaks: families separated, voices silenced, opportunities denied, and dreams deferred because of skin tone or heritage. God’s tears, imagined falling like gentle rain, water the hope for healing. Every act of kindness, every honest conversation, every protest for justice is a balm to that divine sorrow. 

In the face of ongoing racial division, let us not become numb to God’s grief. Instead, let us feel it and allow it to move us toward empathy, justice, and reconciliation. When we honor each other’s humanity, we honor the heart of God—and, perhaps, help dry those sacred tears.” 

 God continues to love us unconditionally; to hold us in the palm of His hand; and to wait for the unity of man. 

Terri