“Why?” is the first question I ask myself! Since the Columbine tragedy in April 1999, where twelve students and one teacher were murdered, this haunting question, “But why?” echoes persistently through each new, senseless massacre. After another devastating shooting, this time at Robb Elementary School in Texas, I find myself asking again—perhaps asking God—“My God, why?” Nineteen children. Two teachers. Dead. Gone. Forever. We grieve not only for the lives lost but for the futures these young ones could have shaped, the countless lives the teachers might have touched. This is the heavy cost we continue…