Jummah Mubarak

"I gotchu, Mere Jaan" (my love). I heard a husband say this to his wife as I was walking into Friday prayer. She had asked him to pray for her sister. It was so sweetly said. This was after I watched a older man pull the hood on to his mother's head to protect her from the rain as he walked her to the mosque. Focus on the good, right? I decided to go to the 11:30am Jummah at ADAMS-Sterling because Imam Kebba Sallah's recitation is beautiful, mashAllah. Honestly, he also is concise and allows me to actually pay attention. Let's just say my attention span is not at its peak these days.
I am sitting in Panera attempting to put together my course work discussing my privilege. One, is Panera on the boycott list? Two, my privilege? Where do I start? Maybe with the idea that my mental health is struggling and while I know I can turn away from the images, the Palestinian people can't...it's their reality. I lost my beautiful child to a bone marrow failure disease and not to a genocide but yet, there is a connection with those mothers. Hadi, my guide continues to remind me that there is no power or might except God. La halwa wala quwatta billa.
I gotchu, mere jaan. #jummah #freepalestine #ceasefire #grief #boycott