Thousands of pro-Trump protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, vandalizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and both congressional chambers as lawmakers met to review President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College.

Lawmakers were escorted to safety as the crowds gained entry to the building by bypassing security barricades and breaking windows. Protesters overturned tables and caused damage in Pelosi’s office, according to multiple reports. One individual was photographed with his feet up on the California Democrat’s desk, while others left a note that read: “We will not back down.” – Fox News, December 6, 2021, 3:08 p.m., EST

I already had scheduled blogs, which turned out to be appropriate to this story, scheduled for today and Friday. I have bumped them to Friday and Saturday. Don’t miss them…they all carry the same message.

When June heard the news of the protests at the capitol, she started playing St Francis of Assisi’s prayer for peace, “Eternal Life,” on the piano. Where is St Francis when you need him? Where are his successors?

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. – St Francis of Assisi

Here’s a nice choral rendition by the Moody Choir with alumnae.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5.9, NIV)

Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky. (Philippians 2.14, 15, NIV)

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. (Exodus 23.2, NKJV)