Praying for Charleston

The only response I can manage right now to to a story like this in the New York Times, is deep sadness, anger and prayer.

• "A gunman ... opened fire at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the nation’s oldest black churches, on Wednesday evening, killing nine.

• Police arrested the suspect in Shelby, N.C., a town east of Charlotte and just north of the South Carolina state line.

• The Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor and a state senator, was killed, according to the minority leader of the State House of Representatives.

• The police said the other victims in the Charleston church shooting were six women and two men.

• The Charleston police chief, Greg Mullen, called the attack a hate crime."

It is senseless...

Will you pause to pray?