Jesus told his followers to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect and I’ve thought of this as a lifetime goal. I say blithely that no human is perfect, but I go ahead and expect it of myself.
I carried the pain around for years, though I did not realize its magnitude. I was sometimes aware of the raw, aching wound. Certain songs would make me cry uncontrollably. But surely the effects would go away after enough time had passed. After all, I was not the one who had suffered.
In the wake of mass tragedy, such as the church shooting in Texas, the bike path attack in New York, or the concert shooting in Las Vegas, it's natural to ask, "What can we do? How can we stop this from happening in the future?"
