One Boy Spared

     Fury and fear once drove a man to massacre innocence in a small town.  There would be no debate over gun control, for it came by the sword.  The tyrant king ordered a town's toddler boys to be eliminated.  A whole class taken; two-year-old girls left with no counterparts.  Boys not yet weaned, ripped from mother's breast.  Parent's lamentations heard for generations.

     But one boy was spared in this small town horror.  (Spared as a boy, but not as a man.)  One boy spared to ransom all the world's children.  Justice come by tragedy. 

"A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more."                                                                       Matthew 2:18