Cueca Solo – They Dance Alone

“He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?”

Micah 6:8

I remember when I first heard Sting’s “Cueca Solo – They Dance Alone” decades ago, a song about the Desaparecidos in Chile under Pinochet.

I couldn’t imagine the grief, the anguish, the pain of the women whose loved ones had been disappeared by federal officials.

We’ve been here before.

And Here We Are Again.

“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower

“And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.” Mark 3:25

“For in America we all live in the same house – the American house. And it doesn’t matter whether we are Black or White, Latino, Asian American or Native American. On this little planet, this little spaceship that we call Earth, we must learn to live together as Dr. King would say or we will perish as fools.

We cannot give up, cannot give in, cannot become bitter or hostile. We have to march on with hope, with faith and with love.” John Lewis

In The Narthex