Vigil for Orlando Victims

Wednesday night a vigil was held in Seattle at St. Marks Cathedral with a procession that ended up at St. James Cathedral.  There was music, prayer, a tolling of the bells for each victim,  and reflections and readings from a variety of ecumenical leaders including a Muslim, a Rabbi, Episcopal and Catholic.  Very moving with what I found the most poignant was when the one leader spoke saying "Tolerence is NOT enought....we MUST actively take a stance as a community to say NO MORE VIOLENCE....We must insist as a community that we want change.  We need to embrace relationships because they MATTER." 
     It was very moving and tearful and hopeful and powerful.  I tried to go all the way on the walk to St. James, but my feet and legs and hips were telling me to stop , so about  with a half mile more to go I sat down and Big R retrieved the car.  OK!  Pavement walking is not my friend...but the evening was one of hope and love .  My collage shows  the beginning inside the church of the procession behind the Mercy Banners...then one which includes our openly gay Mayor Ed Murray and his husband as well as our female police chief, on the lower left is some of the gathering on the way to St. James, then one with a sign a man carried showing a heart saying MY FAVORITE WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
     Sign petitions to make assault weaons illegal....say NO loudly to these vicious acts of hatred and violence....unite as a loving community wherever you are and embrace those all around you demanding changes to this craziness!  Dispite my sore feet I'm glad I went.