I know you and I don’t see eye-to-eye on certain things, but I am in complete agreement with you on this. If people would just take a minute to look at a situation from the other side, to think about something besides their own pain or hurt or desire, the world would be unrecognizable. In a good way.

I contemplated going the law route in college, but after a month interning at a DA’s office in the Sexual Assault and Family Violence unit, I knew I could never do it. I could never turn off the pain I felt in hearing about a woman who, in anger, through acid on her husband’s face and lit him on fire. I couldn’t bare to watch a young girl being verbally intimidated by her father’s lawyer as she confessed to her molestation as a child. Even if I could compartmentalize these kinds of things, I would never want to. The world needs more people like you, people with compassion. There is enough apathy these days, “what the world needs now, is love.”

The only thing I can say, is that the silver lining in this situation is that the child will no longer be in a dangerous home. I’m sure their life will not be easy, but let’s pray they’re safe and loved.