I don’t know what to write here. Things in Minnesota are bad. A friend who lives across the country said to me a few days ago, “Maybe they exaggerate in the reports.” I’m telling you: They don’t exaggerate. If anything, the reported news understates the scope, scale, and level of fear, violence, and lawbreaking being visited on residents of the Twin Cities (and outstate as well) by agents of our own government. Read the news reports and then know that these kinds of things are happening hundreds of times over, every day, across the cities, and most of them will never reach the level of national public awareness, because there are simply too many of them. Our kids are seeing things happen that at a “normal” time, any one of which would become a national scandal, but today doesn’t reach a level of atrocity to break through the baseline level of daily atrocity. If you are a praying person, please pray for all of us.