La Jefa - Hermila Garcia

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Two months ago I re-tweeted the story of a 20 year old Mexican woman, Marisol Valles Garcia who took the job of police chief when no one else would.  I have been wondering for some time how she was doing.  There are a handful of other women who have stepped up as law enforcement chiefs.

One of these women has fallen victim, Hermila Garcia.  News editors today report her murder at the hands of, you guessed it, Mexican drug runners.

Hermila Garcia ... hero

In Your Midst
I, God, am in your midst.
Whoever knows me can never fall,
     Not in the heights,
     Nor in the depths,
     Nor in the breadths,
     For I am love,
Which the vast expanses of evil
     Can never still.
            Hildegard of Bingen

Lord, make me an instrument of thy 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;
Fot it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.
         Francis of Assisi