Darkness to Light

Bryan's recent "Without Remorse" blog refueled some anger within me the other day, and today I stumbled across an organization called Darkness to Light that confronts issues of child sexual abuse. Not so long ago, I used to get really angry about a lot of silly things - mostly involving not getting my way - but these days I'm pretty laid back. I'd say I get truly angry less than once a month. But reading stuff like this incites a type of anger in me that, frankly, makes me feel a little uncomfortable. I work with kids regularly, and the reality is that I'm likely to eventually encounter a child who is or was being abused. I don't even recall the last time I hit someone, but I just have this burning desire to beat the shit out of these people who prey on children. How much more will I want to see justice come to someone who hurts one of "my kids?" And in the end, I suppose that what I want more than beating them up is to see justice done - swiftly and severely. But what I want to see even more is for this kind of depravity to end entirely and in the mean time for every decent adult to watch out for the little ones God has entrusted to them.