Sitting in the diner at 4:00 AM, it's just me and the waitress, and the trucker in the back booth slowly sipping his coffee. The waitress says she can't wait until dawn so she can leave. I don't have the heart to tell her the trucker and I are desperately hanging on to the last glimpses of moonlight.
Across the street, spray-painted words are scrawled across a concrete wall that read, βLive for today because there is no tomorrow.β Prophetic truths that do not lead to tangible improvements often lose their meaning, their power. Communities lost and without direction begin to decay.