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Letter from General Secretary Lee Spitzer to Attorney General Sessions:

H: Your apparent lack of empathy, let alone any response I can associate with Jesus, with parents and children in the plight you describe is noted, and it deeply saddens me, at least as much for you, who must be one hurting unit, as for them, whose situation and fate after all don't turn on your reaction to them.

I haven't the remotest idea what that rambling collection of words means, but I regret that I've caused you deep sadness and hope you will soon regain the joy of your salvation. I trust that you have rightly observed Matt. 7:3-5 and cast the two-by-four from your own eye before accusing me of having a splinter in mine. Your apparent spiritual superiority reminds me of Christ's notion (an association with Jesus) about those he claimed were whited sepulchers, but I suspect you wouldn't fit that description since surely you are now housing and taking great care of at least one Costa Rican or Mexican family in your own home. Perhaps you will tell about them soon.

H: You are in my prayers.

I would appreciate knowing what exactly you have in mind in asking God to apply it to me. I love chocolate ice cream but offer it only as a suggestion. Vanilla would also do. If it's just plain goodness, I'm afraid you would be wasting your time since I'm too far gone for even a heavenly-wrought one-eighty...a hopeless deplorable, as Hillary might have it.

Having worked closely with an ABC/USA mission in Mexico, American Baptists know a lot about refugees, resettlement, etc. Dr. Spitzer knows what he is talking about. One of the blessings the ABC has is being so ethnically diverse. The denomination has many Latino members and has a region that encompasses Puerto Rico.

I appreciate Dr. Spitzer's letter!