The Day After a National Tragedy

Yesterday we cried for the children. And well we should. But what about six months from now? One year? Will we, by then, having passed a "good piece of legislation concerning gun control" have "solved" the problem to the extent that we can sit back, relax, and allow the tears to cease. OR, will we still cry...for the little boys and girls in those far-off countries who go to bed every night hungry or those in our own neighborhoods who, through neglect, suffer the same fate? For the children far away (or on the streets of LA) who are bought and sold in the international sex trade or for those in our own neighborhoods who are being sexually abused by priests, by coaches, by teachers, by multiple step dads, by luring looks from convicted child molesters in virtually every neighborhood, by hundreds of thousands of purveyors and predators of child pornography on the screens of every home computer in the world? 
Will we still pray for the little boys who are handed a rifle and told to go fight a war- or the children in our homes who, through neglect, are handed a remote and told "Get out of my hair, kid!", thus introducing them to their prime "baby sitter" through the most pliable years of their little lives? For the millions of children right here among us who, due to their parents' addictions to alcohol, or drugs, or work, are terribly neglected, arriving at kindergarten never having been read to and not knowing how to count to five?
Or the children of divorce in our culture who unwittingly become pawns on their parents' chess board, not out of love, but out of power and control- the one with the kids receives the child support money; the one without the children has to pay it.
Or the POC (product of conception- the euphemism we have created to ignore that, even in the womb, it is a child) whose parents, for reasons of convenience (We just can't be bothered by this right now!) choose to abort.
Yes, I cried yesterday. I've been crying for 48 years of counseling families. I've personally been eyewitness to every scenario just described. And I'm telling you, we'd better not think that a hasty piece of legislation will "solve" anything. The human heart is the problem. Scripture calls it sin. But we don't like that word anymore. So let's call it selfishness- Scripture says that's the same thing. We'd better "get over ourselves" and continue to cry for the children. Next week. Next month. Next year. In all the years to come until finally we allow God to call us to the high value He places upon all of life in general and the lives of children in particular. Until we get there, nothing will be solved. Come, Lord Jesus!!!