Grieving the Loss

Solemn newscasters retell Accounts filled with sorrow. More children lost where they should have been safe. Seven lives cut short by the careful planning of one. We see Rachel’s tears falling again. They’re gone. Parents, communities cry out “How can such evil be addressed?” Empty arms ache with excruciating pain. We remember Michelangelo’s “La Pieta”, She neither blamed her Creator, nor held back her expression of sorrow. As we see yet another example of innocent slaughter, And wonder how we address this culture of death. Such pervasive life-destroying demands provoke us to join the saints below the altar and cry, “How long Lord…?