Tyori

    Since the beginning, I was taught that there was one compassionate, forgiving, and true God. He would always protect me from harm and love me unconditionally. I didn’t really understand what that meant as a kid, but I went along with it because if I did, it made my parents smile.       But everywhere around me I didn’t see a whole lot of loving going on in the world God created for us. It was like on the seventh day God took a nap because he was too lazy to remove the serpent from The Garden of Eden. From that bite of the forbidden fruit bloomed the ghetto gangs that seeped their way into my neighborhood. I encountered serpe