A Four Year Old Girl in the Battle of Good and Evil in Baton Rouge

Rod Dreher , who is a columnist for the Dallas Morning News, has a good piece up on his blog Crunchy Con. It is about a senseless horrible murder(s) that so often we just get so overwhelmed by when we read it in the media. However even in these things God is at work and there are heroes and virtue. I think we often don't see that reported.

Basically in Baton Rouge last week Lindsay Palmer, a four-year-old saved herself and her baby sister from the murderers who beat her mother to death, and slashed her little brother's throat, and then hers.

He has background here at She's not heavy, she's my sister and follows it up with this good post Good, evil, ascetism and creativity.

I like when he says :"This is why I think the lives of the saints are so important to us, as well as true art -- this, as distinct from moral exhortation and abstract reasoning (which, don't get me wrong, have their place). We need to see what it is like to live out the truth of our faith as a source of true life. T.S. Eliot remarked once that "If we learn to read poetry properly, the poet never persuades us to believe anything. ...What we learn from Dante, or the Bhagavad-Gita, or any other religious poetry is what it feels like to believe that religion." If you've ever met a saintly person, and many of us have, you know what it's like to be powerfully attracted to the light shining forth from him. "