"The first sign something was going very wrong at Nordstrom last November was the couple running up the down escalator. They were the herald to avoid the man with the rifle just below. It was at that moment that the gunshot-like sounds we had just heard made sense, and a long night began for what would seem like every law-enforcement agent in New Jersey.
"That first Monday in November last year ended in the early hours of Tuesday, when 20-year-old Richard Shoop was found in a remote part of the Garden State Plaza with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.
"I think of him often not just because I had been only a few yards away from meeting him that night, but because the agony he must have been living through is not his alone. Richard Shoop was battling some demon, whether it be clinical depression or dark choices we can so often hellishly settle for, as lights of faith, hope, and love have all seemed to fade."
In a recent post, Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor at large of National Review Online and nationally syndicated columnist, reflected on the importance of discerning Truth among the details in daily life so that we may be prepared "when danger comes and darkness falls."
To access her complete post, please visit:
National Review Online: The Devil Is in the Details (3 NOV 14)
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