Peace needed, stat!

While watching TV news coverage of last night's mayhem in Ferguson, I was struck by the incongruity of seeing Christmas lights amidst destroyed buildings and cars.  I thought repeatedly about John Gorka's "Christmas Bells."  Gorka's take on "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" has a markedly different tone than Harry Belafonte's version.  Belafonte's version is elegant, while Gorka's is stark and downcast, especially as he sings, "And in despair, I bowed my head.  'There is no peace on Earth,' I said.  'For hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on Earth, good will to men.'"  After last night's devastation, here's hoping from now on, as the song says, that "the wrong shall fail" and "the right (people, with more peaceful reactions will) prevail."