All victims of violence.  Along with their children.  The numbers all sound so clinical and distant.  Just so we can have some more numbers to “study the issue.”  But consider this.  The “one” is your daughter, the “one” is your granddaughter, your sister, your niece, your friend, your neighbor.

We treat these statistics like clinical studies.  We say we are appalled by this violence. Everyone in church folds their hands and prays for the victims’ safety.  We pray for “Tamar.” We pray for Jessica and her three dead young daughters (video).  Then we all go home in silence.   And eat our Sunday dinner.  All while someone’s daughter is screaming to protect herself and her babies. Babies whose slain bodies will be found in the bed of a pickup truck tomorrow morning.  To create yet another statistic that we quote.  And again nothing is done.

You and I will see this news on the internet.  Nothing done.

You see them.  You know you see them.  The women wearing long sleeve shirts during the hot summer days to cover the bruises on their arms.  And with their timid, quiet children in church.  The church’s best kept “family secret.”

Jesus was a man of action.  Not silence.  He hears the screaming.

Do you hear the screaming?

All evil needs to exist is for good people to do nothing.  While “one” screams for help.

Return to part one — Continued in part three.