Imagine a child born in the Kiev metro and his powerless mother, sheltering from shells.
Christ is crying alongside them.
Imagine a lonely grandmother with a grandson in Lugansk who cannot sleep because of explosions and sirens.
Christ is crying alongside them.
Picture Russian and Ukrainian soldiers looking at each other through a machine gun point.
Christ is crying alongside them.
Imagine the drivers who spent three nights in line at the Ukrainian-Polish border.
Christ is crying alongside them.
Imagine your Facebook friends who are ready to denacify each other with their comments.
Christ is crying alongside them.
Imagine the explosions near your home and the wounded in the east and west, in the south and north of Ukraine.
Christ is crying alongside them.
Imagine hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine in Europe and Russia.
Christ is crying alongside them.
Imagine coffins with 18-year-old boys who were just starting to live and their mothers killed by grief.
Christ is crying alongside them.
Imagine hugging all these people.
Christ embraces them with you...
Passed along to our District Superintendent, Gary Weaver, from his classmate and friend Bishop Eduard Khegay, Resident Bishop of Eurasia Episcopal Area (serving both Russia and the Ukraine).