Rejoice?

The Third Sunday in Advent is supposed to have a theme of "rejoice" to it.  With the mass killing of children in a school this past Friday, it is a bit hard to rejoice.  Yet, it points out the kind of world into which Jesus was born.  He came with little protection.  he came into a world of much evil.  Did not Herod have slaughtered many children in Bethlehem in order to try and kill Jesus?  Children killed by mass crazed people are called "Holy Innocents."  The children killed last Friday are innocent and holy as children.  Jesus came to share the mess of our dangerous lives.  He did not come with power and authority.  He suffered because he would love in the midst of our mess and the evil we do to one another.

Legislators will talk about gun control for awhile, but what I can do more immediately, is make sure that I am loving at the same time that I am grieving.  John the Baptist encouraged people to be more just and kinder to one another as a first step to repentance.  I wonder when love stopped working in the life of the young man?  When did murder of innocent children become the solution?  We are not born this way.  Something happens along the way.