Elizabeth Phillips

Like, there are treasures in the darkness.

You know, would we all trade it to, in their case, have their daughters back for me to have my brother back?

Of course.

Um, but that's why I read the Serenity Prayer because, um, you know, it talks about being reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy in the next.

Like, it's not all hunky dory here on Earth.

And we can find those treasures in the darkness though, those glimmers of hope, those signs.

And I brought this book to share because a lot of the families... I just want to say something real quick.

Common sense.

The, the covenant shooting was personal to me too, because the senior pastor of that church, his daughter, Hallie died in that shooting.

And, um,

He married my husband and me.

He led my husband to Christ in college.

Well, you helped on the backside, right?

You secured the... Yeah, thank you.

And it's the after it happened that's so devastating.

So how do, you know, circling back to what we talked about earlier, it's like, how do we go upstream to prevention?

And value prevention and put resources towards prevention.

The legislative process is so reactive.

In Texas this last year, another big win for kids is that Representative Mitch Little, who I mentioned earlier, helped us with the drafting on Trey's Law.

He passed a bill that removed sovereign immunity from public schools.