It’s too soon after the murder to mention the names of the people involved; so, the following names are changed. In a small town, Janice, a young grade school teacher, had tried to break off a dating relationship with a young man. The young man had serious mental illness. He shot and killed Janice; then committed suicide. Her parents, Jack and Maxine, were friends with the young man’s parents. In the midst of their grief Jack and Maxine got in their car and drove to call on his parents. No matter the tragedies, they set out soon, much quicker than I’d be able to do, to try keeping the relationship intact between them and the young man’s parents. Consider the effort of those grieving parents as trying to put part of a broken world back together. And, reflecting upon Jesus’ crucifixion, cons…