Healing

I don’t think I can stand to hear about another mass shooting: the event, the chaos, the lives of the victims, the sorrowful stories of the survivors and families, the speeches, the visits to the site, the national lamentations. And what all comes of it?

Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston, Parkland, Orlando get resurrected on their anniversaries only to remind us of how little was done. What does come from sermons of consolation, from the cowardice of legislators, from the distractions of daily life?

This is a cultural problem. And it’s not the culture of them. It’s the culture of us. All of us. We need to care for our children. We need the call to determined action from the pulpits. We need to challenge the empty patriotism of rigid interpretations of the Second Amendment. We need legislators who have the spine to say no to the NRA agenda. And we need to make time in each of our lives, in any way we can, to heal the ailing society we live in.