Humanity

Ah sadly, no ones immune are they? When I heard of the Wisconsin tragedy this morning I thought first of my family & friends who attend church regularly. If something like that is almost impossible for me to process, how much more difficult it must be for them.....
who draw such strength from the fellowship of their congregations, and the love and communion, and sense of safety in community. I was deeply saddened for them.
The BTK killer being the President of his 400 member church was a good way to hide in plain sight...but the sad irony is he wasn't there to hide really, that was who he was. Psychopathic people dwell everywhere and they are masters at pretense and manipulation. They copy being human, not having the crucial component of empathy and conscience. I don't know that this latest guy was a sociopath, but the BTK guy was I suspect. Its a frightening and humbling knowing that we are all capable of the most heroic and the most heinous of acts...all of us have the seeds of both sown into the fabric of our humanity, and to deny the existence of either is foolish indeed. Look at how the murderer of the judge and others in Atlanta, was able to be reached by God's mercy...and the tenderness of a gentle soul. He is definately not sociopathic, displaying conscience and empathy for his captive....both were heros in their moment together. Most of us live our lives somewhere in the middle, never really harming another, beyond the less than heinous wounds we inflict on those we love and never being a hero other than on the battlefield of our daily struggles. What tragedies, what twisted hurts of humanity bend us in directions we would not choose to go. I wish for mankind to dwell in the folds of grace, wrapped in the mercy of love...but where do we look for such comfort. Only within I suspect.