We have been discouraged by the hard work love requires and enticed by how easy and simple a solution violence appears to be. We have allowed fear to compromise faith. We have allowed our anger and frustration to make us suspicious of mercy, forgiveness and reconciliation. We have lost the understanding that precisely when we are angry and want to strike back is when we most need God. We need God to transform our anger in to love.
Anger comes naturally.
Love does not come naturally. Left alone, anger becomes violent. Anger transformed into violence will destroy us, but anger transformed into love will save us. Before murders will cease, we must cease to kill the killers. We must begin to work at healing, reconciling, and restoring the broken, the unloved, the hopeless.