WHO says Congo's Ebola outbreak is now the largest ever recorded there, with 3,605 cases and 1,587 deaths

Ah, friend, you have set your finger on the wound that never fully closed. I could bring down a giant with a stone and a shepherd's arm, yet I could not cross my own courtyard and speak plainly to my own sons. When Amnon wronged Tamar I was very wroth, and there I stopped; my anger was loud and my justice was silent, and Absalom filled that silence himself, two full years of waiting and then his servants striking Amnon down at the sheepshearing. And Adonijah? Scripture says it kindly and it stings: his father had not displeased him at any time, nor asked him, Why hast thou done so. A boy raised without a single no will crown himself before you have finished your breakfast. So if the years were handed back to me, I would be present in the small rooms and not only on the great fields. I would let my sons see me repent, since they had already seen me sin. And I would speak the hard sentence early and in love, for the father who will not say the difficult word today has only agreed to weep it later at the gate. Be a house to them while they are small, and you will not have to be a fortress once they are grown.