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If there is one person who has sustained Sybrina Fulton through her son Trayvon Martin’s death, it has, without question, been Jesus Christ.

If there is one person who has sustained Sybrina Fulton through her son Trayvon Martin’s death, it has, without question, been Jesus Christ. Tragedy tends to have a polarizing effect on a person’s faith–people often run from God or cling to God when their worlds shatter–and Fulton has used her undesired position in the public spotlight to witness to the God she serves. Her Christian testimony started before George Zimmerman was even arrested. Last March she turned Travyon’s hoodie, a sign of protest, into a spiritual symbol. “He’s in heaven with God–and he has on a hoodie. He has on a heavenly hoodie,” she told TIME. That was just the beginning.

 
Fulton, an active member of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Miami Gardens, tweeted a miniature prayer almost every day of Zimmerman’s trial. It was a profound choice given the extreme attention surrounding the case and the platform for political activism she was suddenly given. She openly prayed “the blood of Jesus over this courtroom,” a Christian expression for asking for God’s grace and healing presence in difficult circumstances.
 
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article courtesy of BCNN1.com

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