Recently, I attended a funeral service.
A coworker had lost her 17-year-old son to cancer.
Many of our work team was there. We wanted to support her during this traumatic time of such great loss.
We all prayed together, cried together, we hugged each and consoled our coworker/friend.
When I looked around the room I realized something great.
What an incredible blend of people.
Cambodians, Vietnamese, Somalian, Polynesian, Dominican, Swahili, Caucasian.
An incredibly warm feeling came over me, we all came together, we were the same, and we were one.
In a time where the news media is reporting more and more about racial tension it was heartwarming. To know and to see the bond that was in that room.
It was the good in humanity, we were all there for one another. It is a shame that this is not what the media reports.
There is good all around us and I saw it that day. Have faith in humanity and who we are.
Russell Naughton, Kennebunk
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