We all started out and live as "beloved children of God." As a Quaker, I am asked to speak to that of God in every person. And, recognizing our common humanity and divinity is not just for those times when it's easy. It is also when the good in another seems most difficult to find. Jesus didn't qualify his urging to "love one another."
I feel very sad for the loss of all lives. I can't help feeling that we failed Adam Lanza and his mother, and therefore 26 people in Connecticut. Gun control and mental illness and our health care system are overripe for public discussion, and action.
"With state-run treatment centers and hospitals shuttered, prison is now the last resort for the mentally ill—Rikers Island, the LA County Jail and Cook County Jail in Illinois housed the nation's largest treatment centers in 2011."
This is morally wrong!
P.S. Photograph from Washington Post article about Mister Rogers' quote and photo gone viral
