Flags at Half Staff

Yesterday, as I drove from Norman through Oklahoma City to Edmond (about 30 miles), I was awestruck by the dozens of flags at half staff.  If it is possible to be both humbled and proud at the same moment and for the same reason, I was as I gazed at those flags lowered at government buildings in a secular state and car dealerships and banks in a state overwhelmingly populated by Protestants, all in honor of John Paul the Great.