While it is right for us to bemoan the plight of refugees on foreign shores and to try to help, Mike, John and Urban Compass want to caution us about allowing those tragedies to distract us from tragedies closer to home. There can be this odd dark side to our compassion when we use it to cast a warm, blurry halo around ourselves that allows us to believe that we forever respond to the plight of victims and never create any of our own. This song called “Be A Lucky One” gently asks us to take responsibility for the victims our own culture creates. There is not a note of blame in the song, only grace notes of hope. I won’t tell you how the video ends and none of us knows how the story of youth violence in our country will end. But we are all facing a choice about how we will respond. Realizing that is the first step to writing an end we can all be proud of.